KOTA KINABALU, Jan 9 — Sabah industry players have appealed to the state government to help resolve the shortage of foreign workers faced by the industries and recommended several measures to urgently address their predicament.
“Beside that, allow application of quota to be carried out immediately, allow automatic renewal of unutilised quota approved pre-pandemic and speedier processing of applications for quota,” he said in a statement here today. He also urged for the continuation of the 2019 Recalibration Programme stalled by the pandemic and allow the 80,000 qualified “pending” cases to be ready for legal employment and ensure speedier processing of application for foreign workers quota.
Others measures recommend are to reduce the foreign workers levy of RM6,000 for those having worked 11 years and above; and renew work passes of properly documented workers who were not able to renew them due to Covid-19 movement control measures.