00:00The government has decided to maintain the freeze on quota applications to hire migrant
00:06workers, says Home Minister Saifuddin Nasruddin Ismail.
00:10Saifuddin said the number of foreign workers in the country, as of September 15th, is nearing
00:15the fixed limit set by the government.
00:18He said the number of foreign workers in the country was set by the economy ministry at
00:2115 percent of the total workforce in the country.
00:25According to Saifuddin, the government also does not have any plan to introduce a new
00:30foreign worker recalibration program after the previous one ended on December 31st last
00:35year.
00:36This is the second extension of the freeze on hiring migrant workers, which has been
00:40in place since March 2023.
00:43The first extension of the freeze on hiring migrant workers was in January, when Saifuddin
00:47said it was unnecessary to lift the freeze as the total quota that has already been approved
00:52is enough.
00:56Dhanesh Rajaraza, FMT News.
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