{"id":80234,"date":"2020-06-23T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T05:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=80234"},"modified":"2020-06-23T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T05:51:24","slug":"msia-freezes-recruitment-of-foreign-workers-until-year-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=80234","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;sia freezes recruitment of foreign workers until year end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PUTRAJAYA, June 23\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; There will be no new intake of foreign workers in all sectors until the year-end as locals will be given priority to fill up vacancies, said Human Resources Minister M. Saravanan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will not&nbsp;allow&nbsp;(new) foreign workers until year-end. They (foreigners) can come as tourists, if they are allowed,&#8221; he told a news conference after launching the&nbsp;Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF) initiative under the National Economic Recovery Plan&nbsp;(PENJANA), at&nbsp;the Human Resources Ministry here Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said there were about two million foreign workers in the country currently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the government will try to reduce foreign workers and give priority to locals to secure jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saravanan said the ministry\u00a0would evaluate the move by year-end to see its effectiveness in helping the locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also advised job seekers not to be choosy about jobs to help the country reduce its dependence on foreign workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t think about waiting for a suitable job because the right job might not exist in the immediate future,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA, June 23\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; There will be no new intake of foreign workers in all sectors until the year-end as locals will be given priority to fill up vacancies, said Human Resources Minister M. Saravanan.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;We will not&nbsp;allow&nbsp;(new) foreign workers until year-end. They (foreigners) can come as tourists, if they are allowed,&#8221; he told a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":80235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}