Additionally, according to the PAC report, the government is in a difficult position because it only has the consent of both parties to discontinue its IT method contract with Bestinet.
The Centre to Combat Corruption and Cronyism ( C4), a prominent local anti-graft watchdog, said that the government’s continued reliance on Bestinet’s Foreign Workers Centralised Management System ( FWCMS ) raised serious questions and reflected poorly on the Home Ministry.
Despite having no contract to begin with, Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail shockingly announced on June 24 that the government had decided to extend Bestinet’s commitment to operate the FWCMS for another three times. How did this choice by the state also come about in light of the numerous cases of mismanagement? C4 said in a speech.
Watch carefully how the Anwar management steps to reform the government’s troubled labor sector, which is crucial to bringing fresh dynamism to a slow economy, is being watched.
” The current government, which was in the opposition before, knows the problems” , , said Mr Charles Santiago, a former elected MP who is part of a government-private sector working committee involved in bringing change to the country’s migrant labour recruitment system.  ,
Because of our dependent on cheap international labor and little consideration to upskilling our workforce, he said,” a broad overhaul of our labor sector should be at the forefront of the president’s form agenda.”
LABOUR IS BIG BUSINESS
Labour is a lucrative industry in Malaysia, and it has long been implicated in dark support politics.
A multi-billion industrial complex stuffed with companies offering education in smaller batches or in many wider settings, through conferences and seminars has been born as a result of the country’s decades-old addiction to cheap labor.  ,
Separately, the immigrant labor selection system has opened up opportunities for labor brokers working with nations that export labor, agents representing native employers, and so-called “runners,” who are usually people or businesses that assist with the approval procedure with government agencies.  ,
In these parts of the market, HRD Corp and Bestinet enjoy unrivalled supremacy.  ,
Left activists have long argued that the whole system of mentoring and international recruitment is riddled with problem, mismanagement, and human rights abuses, and has been supported by politicians and effective business enterprises as a result of the large sums of money involved.
” The ( alleged )  , abuses at HRD Corp and Bestinet have been going on for a long time, particularly with funding politically-linked groups and doing things outside its purview of skills development for workers”, Mr N Gopal Kishnam, who heads the Labour Law Reform Coalition, a group of unions and non-governmental organisations, told CNA.