KUALA LUMPUR | The decision to freeze the hiring of foreign workers, including for next year, still stands.
The Cabinet has not made any new decision on this, said human resources minister V Sivakumar.
He said based on the 12th Malaysia Plan, the number of foreign workers should not exceed 2.4 million by 2025, but that number had already been reached.
Sivakumar said these foreign workers included those already in the country as well as the increase from the workforce recalibration programme and the foreign worker employment relaxation programme.
“We will not announce any new quota for a while. If there’s any new decision, an announcement will be made.
“For next year, we don’t know yet (quota for hiring foreign workers). We have already stopped the intake (of foreign workers).
“We will review the need to hire more foreign workers in the future,” he said at a press conference after attending a human resources’ leaders networking luncheon here today.
Previously, the media reported that the 2.7 million foreign workers in the country had already exceeded the Malaysian population of Indian descent, which is about two million people.
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