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2.3 The business of outsourcing of labour should be abolished
This should be in contrast to legitimate businesses involved in outsourced service
functions in the approved sectors which should be permitted to employ foreign
workers on their payroll
2.4 The policy to allow the hiring of foreign workers in selected services subsector should be
immediately restored. Hiring in these subsectors had been frozen in the past few years.

3. Employment Policies
3.1 Issue Employment Passes in digital form and link it to a Smart ID to be generated for each
foreign worker
3.2 The maximum length of continuous stay of a PLKS worker should not exceed 10 years and
the FW can be reemployed subject to qualifying conditions (e.g return to source country,
age, health, etc.)

4. Repatriation Policies

4.1 In addition to participation in SOCSO, FWs should be required to join the mandatory
provident fund, EPF. Membership in EIS should also be considered. The rate of
contributions by FWs and employers should be the same as those applied to Malaysian
workers
4.2 Arrangements should ensure portability of social security payments and benefits stemming
from SOCSO, EIS, EPF, and the applicable health insurance schemes for FWs

5. Regularisation of Undocumented Workers
5.1 A new amnesty program for regularizing undocumented workers must be put in place with
flexible terms and incentives to enhance attractiveness and effectiveness. A voluntary
repatriation component must be added
Ops Mega 3 should be terminated with immediate effect

6. Stateless Persons and Refugees
6.1 In line with recommendation 1.5 above, Malaysia needs to put in place a system to
regulate the status and rights (especially the right to work) of stateless persons, refugees
and asylum seekers
6.2 Stateless persons should be given identities, the opportunities and the right to work just
like refugees

7. Access to Justice

7.1 A foreign worker complaints mechanism should be established which is accessible and
with confidentiality assured
7.2 Foreign workers should have meaningful access to justice and barriers for such access
addressed

8. The Report of the Independent Committee should be made public

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