PETALING JAYA: The human resources ministry has terminated the e-quota module of the Foreign Workers Centralised Management System (FWCMS), which allows for the application, verification and approval of foreign workers’ quota.
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Instead, all employers seeking to hire foreign workers are now required to attend an interview at the ministry’s One Stop Centre.
In a memorandum issued yesterday, Peninsular Malaysia department of labour (JTKSM) deputy director-general Asri Ab Rahman said the temporary special committee set up to expedite foreign workers’ quota approval has “indirectly changed the process and JTKSM’s involvement” in the handling of foreign worker applications through the FWCMS’ e-quota module.
“Through the human resources ministry’s directive on May 6, all requests to recruit foreign workers which are still being processed by JTKSM, whether at the labour department or headquarters, must be stopped immediately,” Asri said in the memo sighted by online news portal FMT.
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He said the order was to come into effect immediately.
At a press conference on April 12, human resources minister M Saravanan said his authority to immediately approve permits for foreign workers had been replaced by the FWCMS portal.
He also said 179,451 applications to recruit foreign workers in five sectors – agriculture, construction, manufacturing, plantations, and services – would be processed and approved within six weeks.-FMT