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CHAPTER 6: MALAYSIAN LAWS APPLICABLE TO FOREIGN WORKERS AND
INTERNATIONAL MIGRANT WORKERS CONVENTIONS OR PRACTICES AND ACCESS TO
JUSTICE....................................................................................................................................................81

6.1 List of Malaysian Laws, Regulations or Guidelines regulating employment................................ 81
6.2 List of Malaysian Laws, Regulations or Guidelines regulating employment passes..................... 81
6.3 Occupational and safety health issues............................................................................................ 81

6.4 List of international conventions or norms.....................................................................................82
6.5 ASEAN migrant issues...................................................................................................................83

6.6 Access to justice............................................................................................................................. 83
6.7 Other issues.................................................................................................................................... 84
CHAPTER 7: NEXT STEPS AND ACTION PLANS............................................................................. 86

APPENDIX I............................................................................................................................................ 88
TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE.............................................. 88

MEMBERS OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE...................................................................... 90
APPENDIX II............................................................................................................................................ 91
The Single Online Integrated Modules of the Foreign Worker Management System (FWMS)..........91

APPENDIX III.......................................................................................................................................... 98
Summary of the Multi-Tier Levy System............................................................................................ 98
APPENDIX IV........................................................................................................................................ 103

End-to-End Integrated Online System................................................................................................ 103
APPENDIX V..........................................................................................................................................105
Secretariat Members........................................................................................................................... 105

Figure 1: Principal statistics of the labour force in Malaysia, 2016-2017.................................................24
Figure 2: Employed Persons by Citizenship, 2010-2020.......................................................................... 25
Figure 3: Foreign Workers by Nationality as at June 2018.......................................................................26
Figure 4: Employed Persons by Industry and Citizenship, 2017.............................................................. 27
Figure 5: Employed Persons by Occupation and Citizenship, 2017......................................................... 28
Figure 6: Benchmarking Foreign Workers in Malaysia versus Other Countries...................................... 29

Box 1: Migrant Worker versus Foreign Worker....................................................................................... 31
Box 2: PLKS Workers – Peninsular ......................................................................................................... 33
Box 3: PLKS Workers – Sarawak ............................................................................................................ 33
Box 4: PLKS Workers – Sabah................................................................................................................. 33
Box 5: Expatriates..................................................................................................................................... 33
Box 6: Source Countries........................................................................................................................... 34
Box 7: Frozen Subsectors.......................................................................................................................... 36
Box 8: Stages for Processing Foreign Workers.........................................................................................39
Box 9: Proposed Policy Adjustments for Selected Enforcement Agencies.............................................. 56

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