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News Berita/Komen Undang-Undang ‘Study amnesty further’ 
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| Wednesday, 29 June 2011 09:09am | |
 ©The Star (Used by permission)by NG CHENG YEE KUALA LUMPUR: The Government should conduct a more in-depth study and come out with terms and conditions as well as procedures to legalise illegal foreign workers to prevent abuse of the amnesty programme by unscrupulous parties or agents, said MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek. He said the party had received complaints from employers that there were agents who were trying to encourage legal foreign workers to switch employers so that they could make profit from the legalisation fee. However, he said, this had caused some employers to suffer from manpower shortage and productivity problems. “There have also been cases of legal foreign workers who make themselves illegal so that they can change employers and demand for high wages,” he said at a press conference after chairing the party's presidential council meeting here yesterday. He said MCA strongly objected to such practices of making legal foreign workers illegal and then legalising them to profit from it. Dr Chua said the Immigration Department must make public the details of the legalisation procedure, including the sectors which required foreign labour. “MCA is also of the view that instead of appointing hundreds of agents to handle the legalisation work, the Government should utilise labour offices in all districts to help ease the cost of legalisation, which the employers have to bear,” he said. The Government will be implementing the 6P programme next month, which is a large-scale legalisation and amnesty exercise to reduce the number of illegal immigrants in Malaysia. Under the amnesty exercise, illegal immigrants can return to their country without being prosecuted. They, however, must first have their thumbprints recorded and stored in the Immigration Department database. On another matter, Dr Chua said there were some technical problems that Kolej Tunku Abdul Rahman needed to resolve before it could be upgraded to be a university college. “The college is currently working on resolving the problem and we hope that it can be upgraded to a university college by this year,” he said. Set as favourite Share Email This Comments (0)
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