RECRUITMENT COST UP....

Plantation firms in Sarawak to pay more to recruit new Indonesian workers (15% more in wages to recruit new Indonesian workers)

KUCHING: Plantation companies in Sarawak will have to pay about 15% more in wages to recruit new Indonesian workers soon. Indonesian consul/counsellor Rafail Walangitan (pic) said the minimium daily wages of Indonesian plantation workers in Sarawak would be raised to RM22 from RM19 in three months' time. The last revision by RM3 a day (from RM16) was in 2010.

He said the Indonesian Kuching consulate would only issue job orders to plantation firms to recruit Indonesian workers if they commit to pay the minimium wages.

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