Levy Payable For Employing Migrant Workers in Malaysia, Approved Sectors for Migrants from which country?

Employment of Foreign Worker

In Malaysia, foreign workers can be employed in the manufacturing, construction, plantation, agricultural, services and domestic help sector.

Services sector consists of eleven sub sectors: (restaurant, cleaning services, cargo handling, launderette, caddy in golf club, barber, wholesale/retail, textile, metal/scraps/recycle activities, welfare homes and hotel/resort island.

Only nationals from the specified countries below are allowed to work in the selected sectors:


Approved Sectors Nationals of:

Approved Sectors	Nationals of:
Manufacturing Plantation Agriculture Construction Services sector	Indonesia Cambodia Nepal Myanmar Laos Vietnam Philippines (male only) Pakistan Sri Lanka Thailand Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Kazakhstan
Services (cooks, wholesale/retail, barber, metal/scraps/ recycle, textile) Construction (fixing of high voltage cable only) Agriculture Plantation	India

Approval is based on the merits of each case and subject to conditions that will be determined from time to time. Applications to employ foreign workers will only be considered when efforts to find qualified local citizens and permanent residents have failed.



An annual levy on foreign workers is imposed as follows:

Approved Sectors	Annual Levy
Manufacturing	RM1,250
Construction	RM1,250
Plantation	RM 590
Agricultural	RM 410
Domestic Help	RM 410
Services - Welfare Home - Island Resort - Others	RM 600 RM 1,200 RM 1,850

All applications for foreign workers should be submitted to the One Stop Centre, Ministry of Home Affairs except for applications for foreign domestic helpers which should be submitted to Malaysia’s Immigration Department.


For further information on employment of foreign workers, please visit the Ministry of Home Affairs website at www.moha.gov.my.

SOURCE:- Official Website of MIDA (Malaysian Investment Development Authority) - 31/8/2013