KUALA LUMPUR (Mar 24): The Malaysian government is looking to revamp the policy on the hiring of migrant workers in the next six months.

At the launch of the country's strategic framework on a national plan on business and human rights, minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Paul Low Seng Kuan said, "the whole management of foreign workers recruitment is a mess. It lacks organisation and it lacks coherent policy."

"To deal with the policies of hiring migrant workers, we have to deal with 14 different agencies and all of them are going their own ways."

According to Low, he had been given the mandate to "combine" all existing policies and set up a centralised agency to deal with the end-to-end process from recruitment to repatriation of migrant workers.

"The framework for that has already been approved. We will have a new coordinating agency for the 14 agencies now," he said.