It is not an uncommon scenarios
that most parts of the city are flooded with foreign workers. This might
happened due to the disasters and incidents at the countries such as China,
India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Indonesia, which caused them to shift to Malaysia
as foreign workforce in order to support the living of their families back in
their hometown. It may also due to the growth of the Malaysia economic which
made them want to work and start a new life in the country. Yet the entry of
the foreigners has brought significant impact to the culture and language among
the local society.
The report and analysis done by the
World Bank (2017) have shown significant changes and rise of the youth
unemployment rate. In 2016, the youth unemployment rate has increased up to
12.12%, which has reached its peak and accumulated to the highest rate over the
past 25 years. The results shown referred to the labor force ranges from age
15 to 24 without work but available for and are currently seeking employment. This
issue should be undertaken seriously before it is expanded to be the biggest tumor
of the country.
Nowadays, we can easily find
foreign workers on the street and along the shop lots. They have expanded their
business from a small convenient stall to the numerous convenient shops in
which the target customers are mostly their people from the same village. They
also contributed mostly to the construction and building industry, despite the
low salary that they received, they fill the workforce gaps, reduce production
costs and expand output and exports. As a result, the unskilled employment
increases and profit rise in the business which makes them want to hire more
foreign workers as they do not need to offer high wages.
However, there are also companies
who are willing to invest in the local society to boost the economics of the
country and to help the jobless Malaysians at this critical stage. The leading
food and beverage manufacturer, Nestle (Malaysia) Berhad celebrated its highly
productive, home-grown Malaysian workforce with its Nestle Continuous
Excellence (NCE) platform, which then cultivates a culture of continuous
productivity among its trained local workforce (Nestle, 2017).
Last year, they have invested RM11
million on the training and development programmes for all the employees and
have committed over 60,000 hours towards training their factory workforce. Mr
Alois Hofbauer, the CEO of Nestle (Malaysia) Berhad has proudly announced that
they has brought the Malaysian potential to the extent and develop them into a
powerful weapon which gives them the strongest competitive advantage.
As a whole, the fiscal impact of
such immigration should be taken care before the local society get slowly
discriminated from the workplace. And the important roles lie within the
decision of the employers whether to put our economics or the profit as the
priority. In the meanwhile, we should work hard to make our skills fruitful in
order not to get replaced in this competitive workplace.
References
Nestle (2017) Nestle Leading the
way with 100% Home-Grown Malaysian Workforce [online], May 4th,
[Accessed: 24th July 2017]
World Bank (2017) Youth
Unemployment Rate for Malaysia [online], May 1st,
[Accessed: 24th July 2017]
By: Yau Che Yan, BAF1541
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