Malaysiakini | 25 September 2018

The government has decided to retain the previous levy payment structure for migrant workers, with employers bearing the full cost.

Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said the decision was made following complaints from migrant workers and trade unions which, according to a report in a Chinese-language newspaper today, said they could not afford to pay their share of the levy.

Yesterday, Lim had said the government agreed to let employers pay only 20 percent of the annual RM10,000 levy for each migrant worker, while the migrant workers themselves would bear the remaining 80 percent.

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