The industry employs some one million workers of which only 450,000 are legal.
The construction sector is expected to face a shortage of workers as industries reopen after over a month of ceased operations during the movement control order period, according to the Master Builders Association of Malaysia.
MBAM deputy president Foo Chek Lee estimated that the construction industry employed some one million workers, of which only 450,000 were "registered legal workers".
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