...UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA, JOHOR BAHRU FACULTY OF COMPUTING SEMESTER 2, SESSION 2015/2016 ULAB 2122 – ADVANCED ACADEMIC ENGLISH SKILLS (ADVANCED ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC) TERM PAPER OUTLINE:Does the Increase Amount of Foreign Worker Induces Negative Impacts to Malaysia? | GROUP MEMBERS: 1. WAN AHMAD ASYRAF BIN WAN HANIF (A14CS0148) 2. SYAKIR ZUFAYRI BIN ROSLAN (A14CS0139) SECTION: 27 LECTURER’S NAME: NORHANIM BTE ABDUL SAMAT OUTLINE FOR TERM PAPER Framework | Headings | Description | Sources | Introduction | Definition | The growing presence of foreign workers in Malaysia can be explainedby excess demand for labour combine with rapid economic growth, aswell as the cheaper cost of foreign workers. Most of them that from low-income countries like Bangladesh and Myanmar travel to other countries to find higher paid jobs. For example the current issue where approximately two millions foreign workers were given entry pass to this country for jobs. | Int. Journal of Economics and Management 5(1): 169 – 178 (2011) | | What is the issue? | The increaseof foreigners cause a bad implication towards aspects like social, security and peace for example, they fight with themselves in public, selling things without permit disturbing the peace. | Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: FPolitical...
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...Multinationals and their impact on Labour Scene 28 October, 2012 Multinationals and their impact on Labour Scene Table of Contents 1. BACKGROUND ........................................................................................................................... 2 2. PRE AND POST LIBERALIZATION ............................................................................................... 3 3. INDIAN LABOUR LAWS ............................................................................................................. 4 4. PRESENT SCENARIO OF LABOUR AND MNCs IN INDIA ........................................................... 8 5. PERCEPTION OF LABOUR ABOUT MNCs ................................................................................ 10 6. RECOMMENDATIONS .............................................................................................................. 11 7. INTERVIEW WITH INDUSTRY EXPERTS ................................................................................... 13 8. BIBLOGRAPHY.......................................................................................................................... 15 MDI-PGPM-HRM-Term-II Page 1 Multinationals and their impact on Labour Scene BACKGROUND India was predominantly an agricultural economy till Independence in 1947. Even after Independence, the First Five-Year Plan (1951 —56) laid emphasis on agriculture. With the Second FiveYear Plan (1956 — 61) there was a shift towards heavy...
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...Multinationals and Their Impact on Labour Scene in India Multinationals and their impact on Labour Scene 28 October, 2012 Multinationals and their impact on Labour Scene Table of Contents 1. BACKGROUND ........................................................................................................................... 2 2. PRE AND POST LIBERALIZATION ............................................................................................... 3 3. INDIAN LABOUR LAWS ............................................................................................................. 4 4. PRESENT SCENARIO OF LABOUR AND MNCs IN INDIA ........................................................... 8 5. PERCEPTION OF LABOUR ABOUT MNCs ................................................................................ 10 6. RECOMMENDATIONS .............................................................................................................. 11 7. INTERVIEW WITH INDUSTRY EXPERTS ................................................................................... 13 8. BIBLOGRAPHY.......................................................................................................................... 15 MDI-PGPM-HRM-Term-II Page 1 Multinationals and their impact on Labour Scene BACKGROUND India was predominantly an agricultural economy till Independence in 1947. Even after Independence, the First Five-Year Plan (1951 —56) laid emphasis on agriculture. With the Second FiveYear...
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...human capital in the economic analysis is an important step. It is generally theorized that accumulation of human capital is a key driver of economic growth. According to economists, dissemination of knowledge to general population allows increasing returns and generates positive externalities. Therefore, it is a central concept of development economics that investment in human capital should be the foremost priority of developing countries. Foreign direct investment refers to international movement of capital across national boundaries. This may take the shape of creation of a subsidiary abroad or to exercise control on the management of a company in another country. The effects of FDI are generally considered to be highly positive on the growth of host country since it leads to transfer of technology and generation of employment in host countries. FDI has experienced strong growth since the mid-1980s and also contribute significantly to economic globalization. Foreign direct investment is also presumed to have positive outcomes for workers in the form of higher wages (Eicher &...
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...Employment Of Foreign Workers In Malaysia INDEX 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Analysis 4. Challenges 5. Implications 6. Recommendations 7. Conclusion 8. References 1.0 Executive Summary The report investigates on the issue of employment of foreign workers in Malaysia. During the British colonial period in the early nineteenth century, Malaysia was a net receiver of foreign nationals who came to work in the plantations, mines, and construction sectors. Nowadays, rapid industrialization, urbanization, strong economic growth led to labour shortages in rural areas and plantation sectors due to rejection of locals to work in these industries. There are some changes and policy reforms since early 2000 regarding the employment of foreign workers, which includes: Amendments to the Employment Act and Equality in Treatment and Enforcement of Laws. There is also a proposel regarding Foreign Workers Act. The report analyses the advantages and disadvantages of employing foreign workers. Among the advantages are availability of low cost labour, willingness to work for long hours and availability of abundant foreign workforce. Nonetheless, there are also drawbacks to employing foreign workers including rapid expansion of population and increasing in level of unemployment of locals. The main issue is exploitation of foreign worker in Malaysia. Foreign workers are exploited by their employers in different ways, for instance, wage manipulation...
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...Foreign workers play an important role in Malaysian labour market and support in economic growth. However, the number arrival of foreign workers have been increasing nowadays and cause negative impacts to the country. Hence, foreign workers should not be granted for citizenship in this country. Firstly, job opportunities for Malaysians will become lesser. For instance, foreign worker allow to work without permit renewal concern when citizenship is granted. Beside that they entitled of welfare belong to Malaysian and make them become more competitive which result a job opportunities for Malaysian was occupied. Furthermore, Adam as cited in Teh (2015), bring in of foreign workers should be re-consider when the Malaysians have limited job options. Secondly, an increase of crime rate may result. For instance, as the supply of foreign worker keep increasing and job opportunity remain unchanged, it will cause an increase of unemployment rate. Thus, Mohamad as cited in Baker (2002), many foreign worker were jobless and involved in undesired activities, creating anxiety among Malaysian. Some people argue that foreign workers should be granted for citizenship because they are underpaid for job that Malaysians not preferred. However, they intend to improve economy in their hometown by bringing back money they earned in Malaysia. Thus, outflow of Malaysian Ringgit will happen. Consequently, money devaluation and inflation will occur. In conclusion, it is obvious that foreign workers...
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...Andy Cheung, McDonald's Franchisee, Forced Out After Allegations Of Worker Exploitation The Huffington Post | By Bonnie Kavoussi Posted: 03/14/2013 6:52 pm EDT A franchisee who owns three McDonald's restaurants in Harrisburg, Pa., has left the company after allegations of worker exploitation. Foreign guest workers -- students from Asia and Latin America -- employed by the franchisee, Andy Cheung, allege that he forced them to work shifts of up to 25 hours and pay steep rent for living in his and his son's crowded basements, according to The Nation. The workers also allege that Cheung did not pay them for all of the hours they worked and that he retaliated against them for going on strike by locking them out of their living quarters. The guest workers paid as much as $3,000 apiece to come to the U.S. on temporary visas as part of a State Department exchange program, according to the National Guestworker Alliance, which is representing the workers. The group says Cheung deducted rent from the workers' paychecks, pushing their pay below the minimum wage. "We were living 6 men in a basement, on bunk beds that were clearly made [for] children and one tiny bathroom," Jorge Rios, an Argentinian college student who started working for Cheung in December, told CNNMoney. The workers have filed complaints with both the Labor Department and the State Department. Danya Proud, a McDonald's spokeswoman, told The Huffington Post in a Thursday statement that the company has taken...
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...Canadians. Please review the following guidelines to increase the chances of a successful application to the YNP. The Process The YNP is an economically based program that is employer driven in nature. Yukon employers who meet certain criteria may submit applications to the program to nominate qualified foreign nationals for employment and residence in Canada. If attempts to hire locally or nationally are unsuccessful and an employer is looking outside of Canada to fill labour shortages for permanent, full-time positions, the YNP is an option that is available to them. The YNP allows qualified foreign nationals the opportunity to work and settle in Yukon with the long-term goal of establishing themselves as permanent residents (PR) of Canada. Hiring a foreign national to come and work in Yukon can be a lengthy process. Processing time for the YNP is eight to ten weeks upon receipt of a complete application. Once an application has been approved the foreign national must apply to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) for a temporary work permit (see www.cic.gc.ca). Processing times for temporary work permits vary by country of origin. A temporary work permit allows the foreign national to come and work in Yukon while his/her application to CIC for permanent residency is being processed. Yukon Nominee Program Process YNP Application Handbook 1|Page 1) Employer Requirements Eligibility: Employers must be...
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...Temporary foreign worker program – Tim Hortons Introduced in 2002 and modified in 2007, this program allows employers to hire employees in occupations that usually require at most a high school diploma or a maximum of 2 years of job specific training. Visas maybe issued for 24 months. Employers are required to cover recruitment and return airfare costs, to ensure that suitable accommodation is available, to provide medical coverage until the employee is covered under a provincial plan and to sign an employee/employer contract. The work permit is issued with reference to a specific employer. Employees generally work in sectors such as cleaning, hospitality, manufacturing, oil and gas and construction. (Elgersma, 2007) Tim Hortons "is a company that a lot of Canadians identify with and it is very proudly a Canadian brand," says Howard Ramos, an associate professor of sociology at Dalhousie University in Halifax. "But it's also a company that is a pioneer in hiring temporary foreign workers and so for this reason I think it's important to highlight Tim Hortons as an exemplar of how the temporary foreign worker program has changed and expanded. (Davison, 2012) The temporary foreign worker program has man is a resort companies use to hiring as they will have exhausted all other avenues for finding employees locally. It is a great program mainly for foreign workers who come and work in Canada and if they like it here they can apply for permanent residency. Unlike immigrants...
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...Act, which gave legal protection to unions and workers. From there, the legendary Teamsters and other powerful unions formed. Although the primary purpose was to benefit and protect employees, corruption and political interests became an integral part of many of these organizations. Increasing amounts of imported goods coming into the US added to the unrest, already caused by corruption, creating situations where workers, upset over time lost due to decreased production, or other problems that were arising, would go on strike. A strike was when workers rallied outside the workplace, usually carrying picket signs and demanding the changes they wanted. Anyone willing (usually nonunion members) to cross these picket lines and go to work in member’s places to keep up production were called scabs. These individuals were subject to attack and treated as traitors, and took great risks even showing up for work. The idea being that if a union could stop a company’s production, they made it more willing to negotiate, thus giving the union even more power to get what they and the workers demanded. However, union member ships have continued to decline since the mid 70’s due to more of our goods and production being imported and outsourced. Today’s economy includes a global market and with that comes the need for understanding new cultures, traditions and ways of doing business. When companies founded in the United States began moving to foreign...
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...made an impact on the twenty-first-century workplace and with the impact certain jobs are at risk while other jobs will be unaffected in terms of eradication. Globalization is the act of extending anything to other parts of the world and this has made the ability to acquire people with unique talents and skill far easier (outsourcing) and has also led to cultural diversity while affecting those cultures as well. Technology has diminished the requirement of people that could do basic job operations such as collecting cash at a toll booth by replacing workers with computer systems. Globalization and has impacted the twenty first century workplace by blending workers from all parts of the world leading to cultural and demand change while technology has improved work output, created new workplace rules, and has begun removing basic jobs. Globalization has brought upon many changes to the workplace; one of these changes lead to companies hiring workers from foreign countries in order to save more money; this is known as outsourcing. An example of outsourcing would be as follows; a company that makes computers can hire people in India to talk to customers that require technical support with the computers. Since hiring workers in India is far cheaper than in America it would make perfect sense to Outsource workers for other tasks that can be done without the workers have to be in the office at the same place. Outsourcing, however, can be a problem because domestic workers cannot compete...
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...Lastly, recruitment of foreign workers could possibly be the easiest way to help overcome the shortage of local labor at construction sites . It is well understood that the major cause of manpower shortage is the employers’ reluctance to pay higher wages to the locals, which would consequently increase their expenditure (Abdul Rahim Abdul Hamid, Bachan Singh, Aminah Md Yusof & Nur Ahikin M. Abdullah, 2011) . For this particular reason, the number of local workers keeps lessening each year, resulting in a massive employment of foreign workers instead. The former Minister of Human Resources, Datuk Seri Dr Fong Chan Onn stated that despite Malaysia currently having about 1.8 million foreign workers, there are still hundreds of applications submitted every month by local companies to the Home Affairs Ministry, requesting to hire more foreign workers (Bernama, 2006) . The statement evidently proves that the demand for foreign construction workers is tremendously high, due to the shortage of local workers. Another cause of labor shortage is local preferences. The locals refuse to work at construction sites generally because they prefer easier jobs. This is especially true when they have higher education levels, which enable them to demand for jobs that have good image...
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...Socio-economic Impact of Remittance on Households: A Study on Khulna City Md. Ashif Hossain Economics Discipline Social Science School Khulna University Khulna, Bangladesh August, 2013 Socio-economic Impact of Remittance on Households: A Study on Khulna City …………………………………… Md. Ashif Hossain Student Number: BSS 0 9 1 5 0 8 Session: 2011-2012 Supervisor ……………………………………. Sk. Sharafat Hossen Assistant Professor Economics Discipline Khulna University Khulna, Bangladesh A Thesis Paper submitted to the Economics Discipline of Social Science School, Khulna University, Bangladesh in partial fulfillment for the BSS (Hons.) in Economics degree August, 2013 Socio-economic Impact of Remittance on Households: A Study on Khulna City ………………………………………… (Mohammed Ziaul Haider, Ph.D) Head Economics Discipline Social Science School Khulna University August, 2013 Statement of Originality Socio-economic Impact of Remittance on Households: A Study on Khulna City The findings of this Thesis are entirely of the candidate’s own research and any part of it has neither been accepted for any degree nor is it being concurrently submitted for any other degree. ………………………………. Md. Ashif Hossain Student Number: BSS 0 9 1 5 0 8 Session: 2011-2012 August, 2013 Acknowledgement First of all I express my heartfelt gratitude to supreme creator and ruler of the world Almighty ALLAH who has given me the opportunity to conduct my education...
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...study of the structure of the external sector of Bangladesh and its impact on GDP. It involves economic models developed to determine the impact of each sector-Export, Import, Foreign Aid and Remittance, on GDP of Bangladesh. It also involves an analysis of the behavior of these factors in three SAARC countries and the application of the regression model developed. The economic model was developed based on the past behavior of GDP and the external sector. It indicated that Remittance is the sector having the most significant impact on GDP and aid the second most significant. While imports negatively affect economic growth, exports have played a very important role over the period. The remittance of Bangladesh has been increasing over the last few years. Hence, its impact on GDP has also been rising. In the span of 34 years export as percentage of GDP increased from 2.2% to 15.4%. Hence, performance was moderately good. The economy has been suffering from ever increasing trade deficits, despite several export promotional measures. Large import payments mainly account for this problem. Foreign aid shows large fluctuations over the period Finally, an analysis was conducted on the behavior of the external sectors in the SAARC countries using the regression model. Export was found to be the dominant sector in India, while imports had the minimum impact on GDP. Pakistan was found to be more dependent on export and foreign aid than on remittance and import. Sri Lanka’s economy is highly...
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...Problems and Prospects of Remittance Service in the Public Banking Sectors of Bangladesh (A study on Janata Bank Limited) [This internship report has been prepared as a partial fulfillment of the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration from Daffodil International University] SUBMITTED TO SheikhAbdur Rahim Assistant Proffesor Department of Business Administration Daffodil International University SUBMITTED BY Date of Submission: 2012 DAFFODIL INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY © Daffodil International University Library Page i Letter of Transmittal January, 2012 SheakAbdur Rahim Lecturer in Department of Business Administration Daffodil International University Subject: Submission of internship report for kind acceptance Dear Sir I am profoundly contended for being able to submit Internship Report on “Problem & prospects of remittance service in public banking sectors of Bangladesh (A case study on Janata Bank Limited)”which you have assigned me as partial requirement of BBA program. I have tried no stone unturned to prepare this report sincerely according to your advice, guidance, instructions and suggestions. It was a great source of inspiration and pleasure for me to work on this report. I shall be very glad to furnish with any explanation on this report necessary. Despite my great caution, I cannot but express my great concern to make any sort of mistakes. If such condition takes place, I would expect your sympathetic and graceful consideration...
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