KUALA LUMPUR: The manufacturing, construction and services industries will be allowed to hire foreign workers from 15 source countries. Foreign workers will also be allowed to be employed in the scrap items and laundry sub-sectors. “Among other things, we also agreed to allow foreign workers from all 15 source countries to work in the manufacturing, construction and services sectors. “We also agreed on looking at the appropriateness of allowing foreign workers in all sectors, including the sub-sectors that have been frozen,” said Hamzah. The ministers said the government had also agreed to consider giving foreign workers temporary access to Protected Areas and Protected Places to perform construction work.
