By IRNA-Bernama
Kuala Lumpur : Stern action awaits employers in the services sector, including airports and hotels, should they fail to abide by the government’s decision that only locals should serve as frontliners.
Tourism Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said the action to be taken against them included disallowing them to bid for new government projects and to renew their licences, blacklisting them, and with regards to hotels, the ministry would cease grading them.
“We need to be firm, not just talk but no action, while the number of migrant workers continues to rise,” he told reporters after launching the Travellers Station, a multi-service tourist information booth, at Menara Kuala Lumpur, here Monday.
The government recently barred foreign workers from serving customers directly at all airports, including the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, (KLIA) so as to allow more locals to be frontliners.
Tengku Adnan said the industry players should to be more patriotic and provide more jobs to Malaysians rather then employ foreign workers.
He said the government would issue a letter to Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad to ensure that its outsourcing companies would scout for local workers to replace foreign workers at the nation’s entry gates.