PUTRAJAYA: For one month
beginning today, the immigration department will educate employers
nationwide that it is an offence to deploy foreign workers as
frontliners.
Those who fail to cooperate will face the wrath of the law, said department director-general Datuk Abdul Rahman Othman.
He said the education process would include providing brochures,
dialogue sessions with employers and meetings with organisations
involved.
Speaking to reporters here today, he said employing foreigners as
frontliners was an offence under the Immigration Regulations 1963,
adding that the department had not approved any request to put foreign
workers as frontliners, except for security services.
Meanwhile, Abdul Rahman said the department would not hesitate to
act against employers who reaped benefits by avoiding higher levies
when hiring foreigners to work.
"This will only incur losses to the government," he said. - BERNAMA
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