May 1, 2008
A total of 473 petty traders had their licences revoked last year for renting or transferring their licences to foreign workers.
Kuala Lumpur City Hall's Petty Traders' Development and Management Depart-ment acting director Ibrahim Yusoff said City Hall was closing an eye on licensed operators to make sure that they did not engage foreign workers in an effort to minimise the possibility of public nuisance.
He said according to Haw-kers and Stalls' Licensing Bylaw (Kuala Lumpur) 1989, hawkers were not supposed to even hire foreign workers to man their stalls.
He said defaulters would be given a show-cause letter and were expected to stop hiring foreign workers within 14 days.
He added that a total of 61 show cause letters had been issued to operators in Petaling Street and all of them had given written replies pledging future cooperation. City Hall would follow up with the issue.
“Pudu Market and Selayang Market are having the same problem, we are looking into it,” he said.
He said meanwhile, City Hall was monitoring the situation of illegal hawkers with frequent enforcement, adding that once caught, the defaulter would be fined between RM300 and RM2,000 or sent to court if he or she failed to settle the fine.
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Something fishy is going on and it is going on for years.
dbkl is just a stone throw away from Chinatown, and yet we get to see 50% of the traders and workers there are foreigners.
Time is right to get the mayor elected.
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