[list_indonesia] [ppiindia] Malaysia is hit by severe labour shortage
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- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:18:05 -0000
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From barber shops to electronics factories,
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Malaysia hit by severe labor shortage
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KUALA LUMPUR (AP): From barber shops to electronics factories,
Malaysian business are suffering from a severe shortage of cheap
foreign labor following an exodus of illegal workers - mostly
Indonesians - in an amnesty program, a newspaper said on Thursday.
The government plans to let employers hire workers from 11 other
countries to fill the vacuum caused by the departure of about 450,000
Indonesians during the four-month amnesty for illegal foreigners that
ended Feb. 28, the New Straits Times said. Bureaucratic red tape is
preventing legal Indonesian workers from coming in to fill the gap.
The newspaper quoted Human Resources Minister Fong Chan Onn as saying
that the construction sector was short of 150,000 workers, and that
small and medium industries, including electronics factories, need
100,000 workers.
Fong or officials at his ministry were not immediately available to
confirm the report.
Other sectors such as plantations, restaurants and barber shops - run
mostly by Malaysian ethnic Indians with foreign staff from southern
India - were also short of laborers, the report quoted Fong as saying.
"The employers are facing difficulties ... many (business) and
restaurant owners have closed down," he was quoted as
saying. "Manufacturers, especially in the electronics sector, are
badly hit."
In a bid to reduce its dependence on Indonesian workers, Malaysia
plans to bring in workers from Thailand, Vietnam, Sri Lanka,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and the
Philippines, the newspaper said.
Indonesia were the majority among foreign laborers who form the
backbone of Malaysia's work force, doing low-paid and menial jobs
that Malaysians won't do. About 1 million of them work without
official permission, and 400,000 remain in the countryillegally
despite the amnesty and a crackdown that began March 1. (**)
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