'Exasperating' - S'wak MTUC wants gov't to reduce reliance on foreign workers

CORONAVIRUS | Sarawak MTUC chairperson Mohd Ibrahim has called on the government to reduce the number of foreign workers in the country given the adverse economic consequences of the Covid-19 outbreak and the movement control order (MCO).

"It is really exasperating that the government has yet to decide on whether to trim the country’s dependence on foreign labour and reduce the number of foreign workers in the country.

"It is glaring and obvious that we have to do so even before the MCO. For years we have been creating low-value jobs to suit the foreign workers and feed the agents...