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11thMay2005, 10:30
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http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=36639
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Expulsion of illegal workers hits Malaysian economy--report
May 11, 2005
Agence France-Presse
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian oil palm plantations are losing up to 70 million ringgit (18 million dollars) a month because of labour shortages after hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants were expelled, a report said Wednesday.
"The losses are due to the shortage of workers available to harvest oil palm fruits which are highly perishable," Malaysian Employers' Federation executive director Shamsuddin Bardan told the New Straits Times.
The repatriation of some 400,000 illegal immigrants, mainly low-wage Indonesian workers, during a four-month amnesty that ended in March has left a yawning labour gap in Malaysia's agricultural, construction, manufacturing, and services sectors.
It has led to industry losses running into hundreds of millions of dollars and sparked fears it may exacerbate a slowdown in economic growth, which is seen at 5.0-6.0 percent this year, down from 7.1 percent in 2004, analysts say.
The government has devised a scheme under which expelled illegal workers would be processed in Indonesia and re-admitted to Malaysia as legal employees but has complained of delays in the system and has begun recruiting workers from other countries.
It has agreed to take in 100,000 Pakistanis and 1,100 have already arrived in the country, Deputy Home Affairs Minister Tan Chai Ho told the New Straits Times.
Malaysia is also seeking workers from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar and Vietnam to alleviate the acute labor crunch.
The departure of illegal immigrants caused a shortage of some 200,000 workers in the manufacturing sector, 150,000 in construction, 50,000 in plantations and 20,000 in the services sector, the cabinet has been told.
source:
http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=36639
http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=36639
mq7.net NEWS
Expulsion of illegal workers hits Malaysian economy--report
May 11, 2005
Agence France-Presse
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian oil palm plantations are losing up to 70 million ringgit (18 million dollars) a month because of labour shortages after hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants were expelled, a report said Wednesday.
"The losses are due to the shortage of workers available to harvest oil palm fruits which are highly perishable," Malaysian Employers' Federation executive director Shamsuddin Bardan told the New Straits Times.
The repatriation of some 400,000 illegal immigrants, mainly low-wage Indonesian workers, during a four-month amnesty that ended in March has left a yawning labour gap in Malaysia's agricultural, construction, manufacturing, and services sectors.
It has led to industry losses running into hundreds of millions of dollars and sparked fears it may exacerbate a slowdown in economic growth, which is seen at 5.0-6.0 percent this year, down from 7.1 percent in 2004, analysts say.
The government has devised a scheme under which expelled illegal workers would be processed in Indonesia and re-admitted to Malaysia as legal employees but has complained of delays in the system and has begun recruiting workers from other countries.
It has agreed to take in 100,000 Pakistanis and 1,100 have already arrived in the country, Deputy Home Affairs Minister Tan Chai Ho told the New Straits Times.
Malaysia is also seeking workers from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar and Vietnam to alleviate the acute labor crunch.
The departure of illegal immigrants caused a shortage of some 200,000 workers in the manufacturing sector, 150,000 in construction, 50,000 in plantations and 20,000 in the services sector, the cabinet has been told.
source:
http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=36639