Figure 1: Total Gross Domestic Product in Quarter 1, 2019.
(Source: Department of Statistics Malaysia, 2019)
Figure 2: GDP Breakdown by Sectors
(Source: Department of Statistics Malaysia, 2019)
and to a certain extent, to address the serious lack
of Malaysian workers in the construction industry
(Rahim et al., 2011). Although prioritisation and
recruitment efforts have been given to local
workers before any initiative to procure foreign
workers, the issue of the shortage of workers
still persists, hence an influx of foreign workers
is inevitable. Workers in Malaysia’s construction
industry can be categorised into three broad
types, namely; the skilled worker, the semi-
skilled worker, and the unskilled worker (Khamis,
Suratkon, Mohammad, & Yaman, 2017). However,
the majority of foreign workers in construction are
semi-skilled and unskilled workers.
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