GEORGE TOWN: Manufacturers in Penang only have two-thirds of their workforce available and are at risk of failing to fulfil their orders on time.
The “missing” one-third of the workforce, or about 60,000 workers in total, are due to the vacuum left behind by unskilled foreign labour, said Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) Penang chairman Datuk Lee Teong Li.
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