{"id":230,"date":"2019-01-21T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/malaysia\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2019-01-21T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:53:26","slug":"rules-for-foreign-workers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/malaysia\/information-for-chin\/working-legally-in-malaysia\/rules-for-foreign-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules for Foreign Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you work in Malaysia under the foreign workers scheme there are some rules that you must follow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Family members are not allowed to come with you or live in Malaysia<\/li>\n<li>You must not work as front liner (customer service\/ sales. For example, you cannot be wait staff in a restaurant). Doing so breaches Rule 39b of the Immigration Regulations 1963 of not \u2018Working or undertaking activities that are contrary to the conditions of the issuance of a pass or visa\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Change of employers or employment sectors is not allowed<\/li>\n<li>Marriage is prohibited with local or foreign citizen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you work in Malaysia under the foreign workers scheme there are some rules that you must follow: Family members are not allowed to come with you or live in Malaysia You must not work as front liner (customer service\/ sales. For example, you cannot be wait staff in a restaurant). Doing so breaches Rule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":224,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/231"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}