"We do not want jobless foreign workers to loiter around here. It is stated in their working permits that they have to be sent back if they do not have a job," Human
Resources Minister S Subramaniam. The government has asked their employers to repatriate them to avoid social problems.
Malaysia relies heavily on foreign workers to help out in its construction industry, plantations, hotels, restaurants, property industry and manufacturing industry. A large number of its foreign workers are from India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan.
The country also employs housemaids from India, Sri lanka, Indonesia and Cambodia. Subramaniam said it was important that employers go through the necessary process to send them home.
His comments came following remarks by a businessman that some factories did not repatriate foreign workers they had laid off but just released them if they indicated that they preferred to remain in the country.
