Migrant rights group Tenaganita today urged Putrajaya to extend its legalisation policy to all foreign workers.

"We support the move by the Immigration Department. However, we do have more than a million undocumented workers in Malaysia," Tenaganita executive director Glorene Das told Malaysiakini.

This was in response to the department earlier this week issuing thousands of temporary work permits, employment passes and professional visit passes to China nationals working in Johor...