Johari Ghani: Some firms still pay TVET graduates like foreign workers despite minimum wage increase

Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani said this reflected a broader unwillingness among businesses to move away from relying on cheap foreign labour as a core business model, even as policymakers introduce incentives and impose quotas to encourage companies to innovate.

“Unfortunately, some of these companies want to pay these TVET (technical and vocational education and training) graduates at the rate of foreign workers,” he said during Question Time.

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