Migrant deadline delay sought
Businesses fear severe labour shortages
- Published: 14 Dec 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Business
Business leaders are calling on the government to extend the identification verification deadline for migrant workers to avoid an acute labour shortage in some industries.
Dec 14 is the deadline for issuing temporary passports to migrant workers from neighbouring Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar as part of the nationality verification process.
From tomorrow, all illegal workers face being deported to their home countries, ending a two-decade regularisation process that has generally failed to ensure national, human and economic security.
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