arawak is working out a mechanism to help high-technology multinational companies (MNCs) operating in Sama Jaya Free Industrial Zone here minimise risks during any future economic downturn.
State's Deputy Chief Minister, Tan Sri Dr George Chan, said at the moment the state's Industrial Development Ministry was in the midst of gathering feedbacks from the MNCs.
"We are a business-friendly goverment and we mean it," he told reporters after attending a briefing by Sanmina-SCI Corp (M) Sdn Bhd's vice-president/general manager, Mark C. Gable, here Friday.
Dr Chan said the state goverment needed to pay attention to the high-tech companies in view of the jobs as well as the expertise they provided.
He said the global economic downturn has affected the high-tech industry in Sarawak but some of the companies operating here had taken pro-active steps to address the concern of their local workers by not resorting to retrenchment.
"Sanmina-SCI has not retrenched its workers during the economic downturn. It had instead offered half-pay or to review the work shifts," he said.
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