Malaysian Association of Suppliers and Employees Management of Foreign Workers (Tekam) has expressed their interest in partnering up with the government in finding a solution and supplement its efforts in the recruitment of foreign workers into the country.

Tekam president, Datuk Megat Fairouz Junaidi Tan Sri Megat Junid welcome the Government’s announcement on the setting up of a single system to hire foreign workers without differentiating the source countries.

“We are eager to look and join at the new system. We welcome the plan and we are prepared to make it successful from the point of entry to the point of exit of such legal and trained foreign workers.

“We support the present government policy to lessen dependence on foreign workers and we are ready to complement and supplement the government’s new effort to meet this objective.”
Megat said Tekam has the expertise to integrate and collaborate with the government in identifying the problematic areas of managing foreign workers issues in Malaysia.

“We have the capability, capacity and experience to supplement and complement government’s efforts in solving the illegal workers problem through our initiative which we have already planned.”

Tekam has good liaison with foreign recruiting agents in the source country and the ministries of labour which is a key integration factor in the recruitment of workers between Malaysia and the foreign country.

He said Tekam would like to be integrated and participate with the new committee of Home and Human Resource Ministries to share their experiences and expertise in enabling this committee to have hands on information holistically and the history of foreign labour in Malaysia primarily.

More importantly, he said Tekam would like to have its original status restored.

“This mechanism provides sufficient check and control on the foreign workers that help Tekam to appeal to the government to put us back to our status quo.”

“Tekam would like to be the solution provider to SMEs that make up 92.5 per cent of businesses in Malaysia.”

He added Tekam is capable to set up training centres in the countries of origin to bring in the right worker for the right sector or industry which is the industrial driven concept of upskilling and technology transfer.

“We will assure that there will not be an issue of illegal workers if we are engaged, tracked, supervised, authorised and monitored by the respective ministries.”

Tekam would provide the solution to eradicate corruption in the recruitment of workers and we agree to be responsible for our members in an ethical and legal engagement of foreign workers recruitment into the country.

“We will also safeguard the Malaysian Employment Act 1955 and provide responsible business ethics in a more professional manner without jeopardising our national security of any kind.”

He said it would be better if the government was able to take care of Tekam members and the 279 outsourcing companies instead of managing 1 million companies and employers.

Tekam has the expertise in management of foreign workers in Malaysia. The government can engage and collaborate with Tekam in solving major issues of foreign workers and employers.

“We are the solution to hundreds of foreign recruitment agents arriving into Malaysia and setting up business of which 90 per cent are related to manpower recruitment and cleaning services companies.”

“We will only work with the government ministries and with no third party involvements unlike the present situation where middle agents such as Bukti Megah, MyEg and Iman Resources are involved for the rehiring programme.”

On the MTUC and the FMM blaming outsourcing companies, Megat said Tekam members were not involved. We are not illegal companies as we are licensed outsourcing companies monitored by Ministry of Human Resource and Ministry of Home Affairs and have ceased to bring in new foreign workers since 2010 as mentioned earlier.

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