Builders Association asks govt to subsidise Covid-19 costs for foreign workers

The Master Builders Association Malaysia (MBAM) has urged the government to look into giving full subsidising the cost of quarantining, screening, and medically treating foreign workers for Covid-19.

This is to ease the burden of the construction industry and encourage mass screening using affordable test kits, the association said.

“It is not fair to pass on the foreign workers' quarantine, Covid-19 screening, and medical treatment costs wholly to contractors as employers in the construction industry are also...