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Employers: Give us more time to house workers
PETALING JAYA: Cramped and unsuitable living conditions have contributed to the rapid spread of Covid-19 among foreign workers, but employers have appealed for alternatives and flexibility in providing suitable accommodations.
Cost factor a key point of contention
PETALING JAYA: The initiative to place foreign workers at selected hotels as a temporary move to curb Covid-19 is welcome, though some stakeholders have expressed concern over the cost factor.
Employers ask for more and speedier Covid-19 testing
PETALING JAYA: Employers are calling on the government to appoint more panel clinics and hospitals to conduct Covid-19 tests to avoid overcrowding at medical facilities.
‘Consider periodic screening’
PETALING JAYA: As enforcement on the mandatory Covid-19 screening for foreign workers commenced on New Year’s Day, employers are calling on the government to consider periodic screening for both local and foreign workers owing to the increasing number of daily cases.
Groups call for more effective awareness programme on screening
PETALING JAYA: Only 8.5% of foreign workers in targeted areas have been screened for Covid-19 from Dec 1-29, prompting calls for more effective awareness programmes to be carried out by the government.
Govt urged to set screening fee
PETALING JAYA: With the Covid-19 screening being mandatory for all foreign workers, employers are urging the government to control the service fee imposed by clinics and hospitals for tests.
‘Shortage of test kits delaying screening of foreign workers’
PETALING JAYA: Businesses are calling on the authorities to postpone the enforcement of the Covid-19 screening of foreign workers in six high-risk states, claiming that there are delays due to a shortage of test kits in panel clinics and hospitals.
Developers baffled by overhang
Units priced RM300,000 and below form the largest unsold segment
Rehda cautiously optimistic about outlook, hoping better pickup in 1H21
KUALA LUMPUR: The Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association Malaysia (Rehda), which is cautiously optimistic about the outlook of the property sector, hopes for better improvement in the first half of 2021 (1H2021), provided there is no new community transmissions of COVID-19 in the country.
