
The government has decided to reopen applications for foreign worker quotas, but only for specific sectors and subsectors, says home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
After a joint committee meeting between his ministry and the human resources ministry, Saifuddin said applications will be reopened on a “case by case” basis for three sectors and 10 subsectors based on proposals by the relevant ministries.
“The approved sectors are agriculture, plantation and mining, including all their related subsectors,” he told a press conference at M Resort & Hotel, Bukit Kiara, here.
Separately, under the services sector, the subsectors allowed to apply for foreign workers are wholesale and retail, warehousing, security services, scrap metal, restaurants, laundries, cargo handling, as well as…