KUALA LUMPUR, June 16 — Only 14 Immigration Enforcement Officers carried out inspections on the management of foreign workers in the country.
Responding to the National Audit Department, the Home Ministry stated in the 2nd Series of the Auditor-General’s Report 2013 said that their job was to monitor companies which applied for foreign workers and conducted investigations into complaints on them.
However the ministry welcomed the recommendation from the auditors that the inspectorate unit also conducted scheduled follow-up checks on the premises of companies whose applications for foreign workers had been approved.
In the report which was presented in the Dewan Rakyat here today, the Audit Department said the follow-up checks were needed as a warning to employers that the government was serious in controlling the entry of foreign workers and that the conditions were complied with.
In the audit, which was carried out on April 10, the Audit Department also reprimanded the approval of 24 of 52 new applications which were not approved by the panel for the intake of foreign workers but were only approved by a Home Ministry officer. — Bernama
