PETALING JAYA: Despite a three-week extension for Visa with Reference (VDR) applications for employers to use up existing quotas, stakeholders say a fresh quota is needed to address the shortage of workers.
Malaysian Palm Oil Association chief executive officer Joseph Tek Choon Yee said the plantation industry needs about 40,000 foreign workers.
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