PETALING JAYA: Low salaries and static pay scales over the past 20 years are the main reasons for the shortage of engineers in certain industries, say engineering bodies.
In urging the government to urgently look into solutions, the Malaysian Association of Engineers (MAE) president Mohd Sabri Mohamad Zin said the issue of graduate engineers being paid low salaries on an already stagnant engineering salary scale was raised in 2019. It made headlines once again in October this year.
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