MALAYSIA’s over-reliance on foreign labour is something that the government has been trying to do away with for the longest time.
It all boils down to striking an equilibrium - finding a balance between the nation’s productivity and competitive edge, a healthy composition of local and foreign labour force, unemployment, better minimum wages and automating enough so that manual labour is kept to a minimum.
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