Tourism Minister Dato Sri Dr Ng Yen Yen announced yesterday that her Ministry has been asked by the Dept of Immigration to handle all matters concerning the recruitment of foreign workers in the hospitality industry.
She said this at a session with all national NGOs at Restaurant Saloma yesterday morning attended by about 20 representatives such as MATTA, MITA, MAH, MBHA and the Malaysia Tourism Federation.
This arrangement does not include recruitment for the shopping complexes as they will be dealth with by another agency.
It is the mission of her Ministry to increase the number of local workforce in the hospitality and NGOs plya an important role towards achieving this end.
Dato Setia Dr Joshua Tan, President of the Malaysia Tourism Federation said that foreign workers are not suitable for the tourism industry workforce as many of them cannot speak the national language and Bahasa Malaysia. In order to reflect the truly Malaysia hospitality we need more Malaysian frontliners.
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