HR ministry implements redeployment initiative for laid-off workers

The human resources ministry, through its departments and agencies, is carrying out a redeployment initiative to help local and foreign workers who have lost their jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Minister M Saravanan (above) said the redeployment initiative involves online registration by the workers through agencies such as the Department of Manpower Peninsular Malaysia, Social Security Organisation, and also the Human Resources Development Fund.

He said the initiative was carried out following the ministry’s finding that many local workers, as well as foreign workers who still have valid work permits, were being terminated by their employers due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The ministry calls on employers to give priority to local workers to fill the vacancies that exist at their premises.

"If there is no response from local workers, then the employer is given the flexibility to hire foreign workers who have been laid off by their previous employer," Saravanan said in a statement today.

Saravanan said the application form for foreign workers can be downloaded from the Labour Department's website at tksm.mohr.gov.my.

The form must be sent to the Labour Department headquarters in Putrajaya either by hand, post, or email.

- Bernama