An Investigation on Deficiency of Local Labour in Malaysia Construction Industry

Lim, Yu Kang (2018) An Investigation on Deficiency of Local Labour in Malaysia Construction Industry. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

The Malaysia construction industry was contributed high significant economic development compared with other sectors. Construction industry required a high quantity of workforce to complete the building and infrastructure construction project. Therefore, local labour was become the fundamental workforce to carry out the construction work. After that, construction industry was also required influx of foreign worker to become an advance workforce contributed into construction industry Malaysia. Deficiency of local labour was a controversial issue. It was caused insufficient of workforce in many construction companies and only can seek workforce from other country. Malaysia construction industry was facing a serious problem in labour shortages. It will bring negative effects such as delay the progress of project and pay for the compensation. This dissertation is intended to analysis the factor that caused the deficiency of local labour on contractor company. After that, this dissertation also determine the negative effect of over dependency on foreign worker and the negative effect which arising by lack of local labour contribute in a construction project. Moreover, this dissertation will discover the obstacles during overcome the deficiency of local labour issue. Last but not least, the opinion and experience will be obtained from the contractor company through the completed questionnaire survey form. This dissertation will interpret the result and to identify the current situation of labour workforce in construction industry through carry out the data analysis. Depend on the data analysis, this dissertation will provide the recommendation of finding and future research which able to improve the worse situation of local labour shortage in construction industry Malaysia.