Escalating Number of Foreign Labour in Malaysian Construction Industry

In the recent year, vast development in Malaysia resulted the direct growth of the nation's Construction Industry. Due to the overwhelming construction activities in Malaysia, the demanding for construction labour is unsurprisingly high. However, Contractors are highly depending on hiring foreign labours than local labours. As a matter of facts, the construction industry is being labelled with 3D term, translated to dirty, dangerous and difficult. As a result, many youths among Malaysian have shunned the industry. Hence, employment of foreign labour increased drastically and slowly becoming a threat as not just towards the construction industry but to the nation as well. Therefore, this research will explore the issue on the escalating number of foreign labours in Malaysia construction industry. The views and opinions acquired are strictly confined to Grade 7 contractor in Petaling Jaya only. Questionnaire are distributed to relevant contractors to collect their feedback on the foreign labour issue. Factors and problems of the escalating number of foreign labour in Malaysian construction industry and the solutions to minimise it will be further explained as well.