SANDAKAN: Sabah Employer’s Consultative Association (Seca) chairman
Alan Khoo commented that if the government decides to increase the levy
on foreign workers for the plantation and industrial sectors, the cost
of doing business will be further increased.
“As of now, there are already so many levies, the windfall tax, to
name one, so this increase will increase overheads of the plantation
sector,” said Khoo. He pointed out that this industry would be losing out in terms of
competitiveness as compared to other countries, Indonesia in particular. Sandakan Fishing Association chairman Phua Peh Chee said he does not welcome the levy increase on foreign workers.
He said locals just could not take up the 24-hour hard labour job as
fishermen going out to sea for weeks compared with the ability of
foreign workers. He explained that if Indonesia can pay higher wages to these foreign
workers, then we would be losing them and the whole fishing industry
would be affected.
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