Plantation companies that wish to recruit foreign labourers must first have at least 30 per cent local workers in their employ.
Deputy Home Minister Dato Sri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said priority should be given to Sarawakians to fill up vacancies in plantation sector, which is currently facing a shortage of workers.
Because the majority of Malaysians are not willing to take up the ‘3D’ jobs (dangerous, dirty and demeaning), the government will have to recruit 12,000 Bangladeshi workers to make up for the shortage, he said.
Wan Junaidi should roll up his own sleeves and make a good example to local folk, whom he wishes to drive into back-breaking labour in the oil palm plantation business for RM15 (£3/$4.5) a day.
Such workers have even been arrested by Sarawak’s hypocrite rulers for attempting to drink water while slaving in the sun during Ramadam.
It is high time for these politicians to perform those ‘3D’ jobs he smugly refers to as ‘dangerous, dirty and demeaning’, which they are expecting the people who vote for them to do, for barely no money.
Just about every BN politician is making millions out of big oil palm plantations, with shares and concessions handed to them as a matter of course, especially in their own constituencies.
So, Wan and all BN’s self-enriching, corrupted and hypocritical politicians should be placed in one of their own oil palm labour camps, for say the period of 5 years (the period foreign workers are often locked away without their passports).
After all, the removal of such basic human rights is legal only under a jail sentence, which is what a good number of BN Sarawak richly deserve – the rest should practice what they preach.