“A system built on de facto debt bondage“

Malaysia’s migrant labour regime is unfair and unsustainable, New Mandada

By Yvonne Tan and Alfian Al-Ayubby, December 24, 2025

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In May 2025 Malaysia’s Ministry of Home Affairs announced that migrant workers would be permitted to change employers across different industries. This could mean a potential break from the country’s employer-tied visa system. Yet the 13th Malaysia Plan launched two months later instead explicitly flagged tightening migrant workers’ permit conditions in ways that would limit their eligibility to change industries and employers, placing restrictions on their doing business and shortening work permit durations….

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