The Government’s move in February to further liberalise the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme has been well received by foreigners and industry players, especially MM2H licence operators. Currently, there are about 200 such operators nationwide. Several amendments to the MM2H criteria were made by the authorities, including the lowering of entry age (below 50) as well as employment opportunities for foreigners in selective industries. ...

Are you looking for a career in radio broadcasting, retail, steel manufacturing or pharmaceutical line? Come to the Star-Jobs h.e.l.p Career Centre at Studio V, 1 Utama tomorrow and Thursday from 2pm to 6pm for an interview. Star Rfm Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd, the operator of 98.8 and Redfm radio stations, is looking for suitable candidates to join its team in its business expansion. ...

It is 11am, and there is no one manning the counter. The trickle of job-hunters that began a couple of hours ago has stopped and Selva Raj is taking a break mid-way through his shift. For four hours each Saturday in the past two months, the senior recruitment consultant for Jobstreet has been stationed at different municipal councils in Selangor, helping applicants to fine-tune their resumes and advise them on how to maximise their chances of landing that dream job. ...

UNDERGRADUATES pursuing courses that are deemed to be “not so popular” at public universities will soon be able to undergo training to enhance their marketability. Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin said the Human Resources Ministry was in the midst of formulating modules to train these graduates to ensure they were able to secure employment. ...

LEGISLATORS, trade unionists and civil-society groups in Asia have urged governments to focus their stimulus packages on community-based infrastructure investments to create jobs and address poverty that has been deepened by massive retrenchments. The delegates to the Regional Conference of Social Democracy in Asia, hosted by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Manila, concluded their recent three-day meeting with a call to governments to increase subsidies on social services and cut interest payments to odious debts. ...

Employers can heave a sigh of relief. The mandatory induction course for maids and foreign workers to qualify for visas to come here has been put off indefinitely. The introduction of the course would have raised the fee the employers will have to pay and caused a “bottleneck” in the inflow of foreign workers, especially domestic maids. ...

Employers can heave a sigh of relief. The mandatory induction course for maids and foreign workers to qualify for visas to come here has been put off indefinitely.

The introduction of the course would have raised the fee the employers will have to pay and caused a “bottleneck” in the inflow of foreign workers, especially domestic maids. ...

The Temptations Chinese Restaurant in Colchester has been slapped with a £96,000 (RM526,000) fine – the biggest ever handed down by a court in Britain – for employing illegal workers from Malaysia, China and Indonesia. The Harwich magistrates court had last week found Bo & Sum Ltd directors Phing Woon Pun and Anthony Lam guilty of six offences contrary to Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996, said a press statement by the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur. ...

Malaysia is facing a shortage of engineers, which will impede the country’s development, said Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) president Prof Datuk Chuah Hean Teik. He said there was a need to train more engineers before the situation became critical, adding that the country would need about 200,000 engineers by 2020. ...

Low wages are the main factor for the government's training programme for retrenched workers to be unattractive, according to the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC). Its vice-president A. Balasubramaniam said those retrenched were mostly middle-aged with 10 to 15 years of experience and were already earning between RM2,000 and RM3,000 per month at the time of their retrenchment. "So, if you ask this group to go for retraining and pay them RM500 or RM800 allowance, surely they will be reluctant,"...