1.   The winners are the private employers who get public money to hire cheap labour.

2.   They will therefore be willing to hire more labour.

3.   Every ministry which wanted a budget allocation from the rural employment support fund would have to provide details of plans to hire local labour.

4.   Komson said hiring Burmese labour benefitted jewellery exporters because of the low wages.

5.   Omar said Malaysia had to hire foreign labour due to shortages in several sectors of the economy during the boom time.

6.   Despite a pickup in economic activity since the end of the first quarter, companies were still reluctant to hire new labour.