In Malaysia, the government is working hard on the band and or to accused the Small or large business sector for hiring illegal workers that comes from any other countries. As the " Borneo Post" Stated that:
A director of a sewing-tailoring company was facing 10 charges under Section 119 (1) of the Sarawak Labour Ordinance and punishable under Section 130L of the same ordinance for hiring foreign workers without approval from the Labour director.
The offence carries a fine of RM10,000 or six months’ imprisonment or both.
He allegedly hired foreign workers without applying for permits for his workers whom he imported through an agency.
The employment agency had informed the company to apply for work permits from the director.
The company director agreed and submitted the applications.
The department rejected the applications after inspecting the business premises.
The company which reportedly hired 60 machine operators from Bangladesh without approval was later informed that the rejection was final.
After the director’s appeal to the department to withdraw its prosecution case against him was refused, he was charged in court in July.
The offence was allegedly committed at the company’s premises in Jalan Utama here at about 10am on Feb 3 last year.
Counsel See Chee How represented the accused before senior assistant registrar Atiqah Abdul Karim.
In other case The Malaysian government try to legalized the illegal workers or employees minimized this problem if not illuminated.
Malaysia Considers Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants
Wednesday, 08 June 2011 By LIZ GOOCH
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia is considering what could become its largest-ever program to legalize illegal immigrants.
There are estimated to be as many as two million illegal immigrants in this Southeast Asian country, which relies heavily on foreign labor.
The plan, which is expected to be discussed at a cabinet committee meeting Wednesday, is designed to help the government keep track of foreign workers in the country, which could improve national security, reduce human trafficking and increase tax revenues.
Economists say the effort to grant amnesty to illegal workers would also help make Malaysia more attractive to investors because it would increase the legal labor pool. Employers have long complained about labor shortages in Malaysia, a country of 28 million with an unemployment rate of 3 percent in March. Many Malaysian industries, including the plantation and construction sectors, depend heavily on workers from Indonesia, India and Myanmar. Malaysia has about two million legal foreign workers.
The home minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, has said that the government is in the process of screening several private agencies to help the government register illegal workers.
“We are starting with the biometric system, as we can use thumbprints to register illegal immigrants,” The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, quoted him Tuesday as saying.
The minister’s comments were confirmed by a ministry official who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the program. The official said that although the plan had not yet been formally approved, it had already been discussed extensively by several ministries. “It will eventually take effect,” he said.
Aekapol Chongvilaivan, an economist and joint coordinator of the Regional Economic Studies unit at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, said he believed the Malaysian government wanted to legalize more foreign workers because that would create a larger legal labor pool. That, he said, would attract foreign companies to Malaysia and aid the expansion of domestic companies held back by labor shortages. Mr. Aekapol also said more Malaysian companies had been investing abroad in recent years, partly because they could not find enough workers at home.
But he said the amnesty plan might not be well received by Malaysians, who might fear losing jobs to foreigners.
In recent years, Malaysia has flip-flopped on labor policy. At times it has offered amnesty to illegal immigrants on a smaller scale, but in 2009, Malaysia banned the hiring of new foreign workers in the manufacturing and service sectors after a government report predicted layoffs.
Mr. Aekapol said Malaysia could learn from Singapore, which increased its competitiveness after legalizing some undocumented foreign workers in the 1960s.
According to Nilim Baruah, a chief technical adviser based in Bangkok with the International Labor Organization, a number of countries have granted labor amnesty, including Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. He said that Thailand had announced a new round of registration to take place in June and July.
Shamsuddin Bardan, executive director of the Malaysian Employers Federation, said companies would welcome the move to increase the number of legal foreign workers. He said it would remove the risk that companies could be prosecuted for employing illegal immigrants, although he said such prosecutions were rare.
Amnesty International’s Malaysia branch is concerned about reports in the local news media that under the program, immigrants would be required to pay heavily in fees and taxes to become legal and to be able to work. The ministry official could not confirm those reports.
“It is unrealistic to expect a migrant worker, whose salaries most often are low, to pay such an exorbitant fee,” said Nora Murat, Amnesty Malaysia’s executive director. She added that any fees should be borne by employers.
While Malaysia has long sought to reduce its dependence on foreign labor, Mr. Aekapol said that for now, “Malaysia has no choice but to welcome foreign workers.”
In the long term, he said, Malaysia needed to focus on producing skilled workers by investing more in the education system and vocational training.
nytimes.com
As far as I am concerned, illegal is really a problem aside from it is against the law of of any countries.
it would be difficult for the government to manage the security measures of the country for, in various cases of some criminal allegation were brought by the illegal immigrants. Though in some cases were also done by the residents who commit the crime, but it is all about the security measures were an illegal people hard to trace there lookouts.
Business sectors, small or huge, hired an illegal worker to save more income. Where in most area in Malaysia especially plantations and constructions worker were paid as low as RM300.00 to RM500.00 only. The actual salary to be paid for legal and resident workers is RM900.00 and above following the labour law.
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Illegal employment case adjourned to Jan 9
Posted on October 30, 2010, Saturday
KUCHING: The magistrates’ court here yesterday adjourned a case to Jan 9 next year after the accused in an illegal employment case filed for leave to go for judicial review on the order of the director of the Labour Department and the Ministry of Human Resources.A director of a sewing-tailoring company was facing 10 charges under Section 119 (1) of the Sarawak Labour Ordinance and punishable under Section 130L of the same ordinance for hiring foreign workers without approval from the Labour director.
The offence carries a fine of RM10,000 or six months’ imprisonment or both.
He allegedly hired foreign workers without applying for permits for his workers whom he imported through an agency.
The employment agency had informed the company to apply for work permits from the director.
The company director agreed and submitted the applications.
The department rejected the applications after inspecting the business premises.
The company which reportedly hired 60 machine operators from Bangladesh without approval was later informed that the rejection was final.
After the director’s appeal to the department to withdraw its prosecution case against him was refused, he was charged in court in July.
The offence was allegedly committed at the company’s premises in Jalan Utama here at about 10am on Feb 3 last year.
Counsel See Chee How represented the accused before senior assistant registrar Atiqah Abdul Karim.
In other case The Malaysian government try to legalized the illegal workers or employees minimized this problem if not illuminated.
Malaysia Considers Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants
Wednesday, 08 June 2011 By LIZ GOOCH
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia is considering what could become its largest-ever program to legalize illegal immigrants.
There are estimated to be as many as two million illegal immigrants in this Southeast Asian country, which relies heavily on foreign labor.
The plan, which is expected to be discussed at a cabinet committee meeting Wednesday, is designed to help the government keep track of foreign workers in the country, which could improve national security, reduce human trafficking and increase tax revenues.
Economists say the effort to grant amnesty to illegal workers would also help make Malaysia more attractive to investors because it would increase the legal labor pool. Employers have long complained about labor shortages in Malaysia, a country of 28 million with an unemployment rate of 3 percent in March. Many Malaysian industries, including the plantation and construction sectors, depend heavily on workers from Indonesia, India and Myanmar. Malaysia has about two million legal foreign workers.
The home minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, has said that the government is in the process of screening several private agencies to help the government register illegal workers.
“We are starting with the biometric system, as we can use thumbprints to register illegal immigrants,” The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, quoted him Tuesday as saying.
The minister’s comments were confirmed by a ministry official who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the program. The official said that although the plan had not yet been formally approved, it had already been discussed extensively by several ministries. “It will eventually take effect,” he said.
Aekapol Chongvilaivan, an economist and joint coordinator of the Regional Economic Studies unit at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, said he believed the Malaysian government wanted to legalize more foreign workers because that would create a larger legal labor pool. That, he said, would attract foreign companies to Malaysia and aid the expansion of domestic companies held back by labor shortages. Mr. Aekapol also said more Malaysian companies had been investing abroad in recent years, partly because they could not find enough workers at home.
But he said the amnesty plan might not be well received by Malaysians, who might fear losing jobs to foreigners.
In recent years, Malaysia has flip-flopped on labor policy. At times it has offered amnesty to illegal immigrants on a smaller scale, but in 2009, Malaysia banned the hiring of new foreign workers in the manufacturing and service sectors after a government report predicted layoffs.
Mr. Aekapol said Malaysia could learn from Singapore, which increased its competitiveness after legalizing some undocumented foreign workers in the 1960s.
According to Nilim Baruah, a chief technical adviser based in Bangkok with the International Labor Organization, a number of countries have granted labor amnesty, including Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. He said that Thailand had announced a new round of registration to take place in June and July.
Shamsuddin Bardan, executive director of the Malaysian Employers Federation, said companies would welcome the move to increase the number of legal foreign workers. He said it would remove the risk that companies could be prosecuted for employing illegal immigrants, although he said such prosecutions were rare.
Amnesty International’s Malaysia branch is concerned about reports in the local news media that under the program, immigrants would be required to pay heavily in fees and taxes to become legal and to be able to work. The ministry official could not confirm those reports.
“It is unrealistic to expect a migrant worker, whose salaries most often are low, to pay such an exorbitant fee,” said Nora Murat, Amnesty Malaysia’s executive director. She added that any fees should be borne by employers.
While Malaysia has long sought to reduce its dependence on foreign labor, Mr. Aekapol said that for now, “Malaysia has no choice but to welcome foreign workers.”
In the long term, he said, Malaysia needed to focus on producing skilled workers by investing more in the education system and vocational training.
nytimes.com
As far as I am concerned, illegal is really a problem aside from it is against the law of of any countries.
it would be difficult for the government to manage the security measures of the country for, in various cases of some criminal allegation were brought by the illegal immigrants. Though in some cases were also done by the residents who commit the crime, but it is all about the security measures were an illegal people hard to trace there lookouts.
Business sectors, small or huge, hired an illegal worker to save more income. Where in most area in Malaysia especially plantations and constructions worker were paid as low as RM300.00 to RM500.00 only. The actual salary to be paid for legal and resident workers is RM900.00 and above following the labour law.
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http://www.bigextracash.com/aft/c1a8887f.html
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