KUALA LUMPUR – Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said that employers have until March 31 to conduct Covid-19 screening on their foreign workers.
“They have until the end of this month and after March 31, we will take action,” he said in a news conference here today.
Previously, employers were given until February 28 to screen their foreign workers, with failure to do so resulting in their workers’ temporary work visit passes not being renewed.
Saravanan said the screening programme on foreign workers was initially limited to six states under the red zone category, but the government decided to extend the programme to all states following its effectiveness in curbing the spread of the pandemic.
He said that so far, over one million out of 1.7 million foreign workers registered with the Social Security Organisation have been screened under the programme.
Meanwhile, he said his ministry and the Home Ministry have identified a total of 300,000 illegal foreign workers under the Recalibration Plan, introduced to assist the government in tracing illegal immigrants to contain the pandemic. – Bernama, March 10, 2021
