Malaysia Needs a Great Deal of Vietnamese Female Workers

After expelling over 380,000 illegal guest workers, Malaysia is now in a dire need of workforce. The Malaysia-based Vietnam Labor Force Management Department says Malaysia will need 2,300-2,500 Vietnamese workers monthly until the end of this year, particularly female workers in the areas of garment, electronics, and seafood processing.

 

Mr. Duong Hong Bac, the deputy general director of the Chau Hung Company, says at this time the number of Malaysia’s worker orders is increasing rapidly, particularly those seeking workers in the electronic industry. Malaysian enterprises prefer to employ Vietnamese female workers, who are believed to be more skillful, more intelligent, and more ingenuous than males. Deputy director Nguyen Hong Son at the Labor Export Center of the Traenco Company of the Ministry of Transport says Vietnam is able to send 1,500-2,000 workers to Malaysia between now and the year’s end.

 

However, after the upheavals and hazards to Vietnamese construction workers in Malaysia in 2004, resources of Vietnamese people available for working there now are reducing putting labor export companies in a difficult situation. Even poor workers have now become cautious about going to work in Malaysia. In addition to this, an enormous over 100 companies have been allowed to send workers to Malaysia hence creating fierce competition among them.

 

Further, the job market in Malaysia has no longer caught the interest from Vietnamese potential workers largely because the income is not high and several labor export companies have provided false information about work conditions in Malaysia in order to easily draw customers.