It wants the government to speed up recruitment from countries such as Bangladesh but has been advised to employ locals instead. FMTNews OilPalm
The plantations and commodities sector, which includes palm, cocoa and rubber, employs 220,000 locals and 265,397 registered foreign workers but requires one million workers.
“We have not received new workers in the last three months,” Nageeb Wahab, chief executive of the Malaysian Palm Oil Association , said last week. However, Plantations and Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali has urged the companies to hire more local workers.“If we talk about the introduction of new foreign workers in the sector, it will not happen in the near future because we have restricted their entry until further notice,” Khairuddin told Bernama TV on Wednesday.
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