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Malaysia's Labor Shortages

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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:42 am Post subject: Malaysia's Labor Shortages

Along with its illegal immigration problems:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=akb.Dzmvp5mc&refer=home

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Some plantation owners and builders already are experiencing labor shortages, said Ismail Abd Rahim, director general of the Human Resources Ministry. About 1.9 million overseas migrants, mostly from Indonesia, account for 17 percent of the workforce, according to the Finance Ministry.

Still, the country can't avoid importing labor because Malaysians balk at low-skilled work, Ishak said.

``Malaysian people don't want to work in these fields because of the D factor: dangerous, dirty, dusty and difficult,'' he said.

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