Bosses plead for relaxing of rules


PETALING JAYA: With an application freeze on the number of foreign workers in the sectors concerned, business groups are making a fervent appeal for the government not to shut them out and to consider the merits of each case.

They said market-driven factors impacted the need for foreign workers and as such, approvals should take this into account.

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