KUALA LUMPUR, — In its parliamentary report released today, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found oversight issues in the management of foreign workers in Malaysia.
Most notably, the PAC said there were regulation violations and overlaps concerning the Foreign Workers Centralised Management System (FWCMS) and ePPAx under both the Human Resources (HR) Ministry and the Home Ministry.
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It said the Cabinet then under the leadership of Datuk Seri Najib Razak, had on August 26, 2015, approved the development of the ePPAx and FWCMS systems, both based on the single window concept; and this led to overlapping functions between agencies in developing the foreign worker management system and public funds wastage.
“PAC also found that the FWCMS contract has yet to be finalised and signed between the government and the vendor, despite the Letter of Acceptance for the FWCMS system development issued on January 12, 2018, until the date of PAC’s last proceedings on March 13, 2024,” PAC chairman Datuk Wira Mas Ermieyati Samsudin said in a statement.