Allow foreign spouses to work, relieve burden of families, says group

The Foreign Spouses Support Group (FSSG) has called for the government to remove restrictions on the employment of foreign spouses who reside in Malaysia.

“We would like to call to attention the severe repercussions of the current prohibitions on employment on foreign spouses married to Malaysian citizens,” said FSSG co-founder Bina Ramanand (above) in a statement today.

She said preventing foreign spouses from working…