‘No oversupply of foreign workers in manufacturing’


KUALA LUMPUR: The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) says as far as it is concerned, there is no physical oversupply of foreign workers in the manufacturing sector.

“We believe that the oversupply of foreign workers refers to the existing quota approval versus the actual current need of workers,” FMM president Tan Sri Soh Thian Lai said when contacted yesterday.

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