FWTA puts the squeeze on Sarawak employers hiring foreign workers
[BorneoPost] - 01/17/2025
KUCHING (Jan 17): Sarawak’s newly implemented Foreign Workers Transformation Approach (FWTA) is putting a financial strain on employers in the timber and agriculture industries with the cost of hiring a worker rising to about RM9,000 a person for the latter. Statistics shared by industry sources (…)
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