'Foreign Workers in Malaysia\r'

' kindle’t die hard with them, can’t live without them. At least that’s what quite a lap of Malaysians I know feel roughly them. Deputy Human Resources Minister, Senator said that t present atomic number 18 1. 403 million externalers here holding the Temporary recitation Visit Pass, which accounts for 11. 2% of Malaysia’s total workforce. That’s actually quite a lot of irrelevanters for a coun movement with a 2. 7% unemployment rate as of last year. but it’s no purpose denying the circumstance that we need them.\r\nThe fact that we still come in’t have minimum wage content that there are just too some(prenominal) jobs out there that pay too half-size (from the perspective of Malaysians) and are con brassred not worth the discommode by Malaysians. As our cost of life story continues to rebellion against stagnating wages, as yet fresh graduates earning around RM2,000 will sometimes find it hard to keep things afloat liv elihood in Kuala Lumpur, let alone having to survive on a construction worker’s wages.\r\nAnd even now we can see foreign workers in supermarkets and restaurants, jobs that are considered ‘comfortable’ and not ‘heavy’, further more and more locals are turning outside(a) from them simply because in the current frugal mode the pay is nowhere near straightforward enough. On the one hand it’s a ignominy that we cull being unemployed rather than at least earning something, even if it means working a hard job with not very good pay.\r\nBut on the other hand it’s also understandable why we’d prefer to hold out and keep looking for something better, considering the economic realities that we have to face in our daily lives. The side effect of being restricted on foreign workers is that it puts a strain on a lot of things †public amenities and services especially. They also repugn with the poor for low cost accommodation, and the congested living conditions have also contributed to societal and environmental problems.\r\nBut blaming things on them will not solve anything. The fact of the matter is, these are men and women trying to function an honest living in a foreign country where their presence is not exactly welcomed with open(a) arms. They had to leave their family behind, live in sometimes untellable and unacceptable conditions, and push themselves to the limit to work as many hours as possible in methodicalness to send as much money as they can home to their families.\r\nTry doing that and see if you won’t find yourself in similar cordial problems should you be in their exact same shoes. It’s easy to blame the ‘other’ when you’re comfortably on the other side of the fence, but not so easy when you really look and try to empathize with them. Trying to combat these problems will in spades cost money, and if we’re being honest with ourselves, itâ€℠¢s just like dousing a fantastic fire †it’s unlikely that we can wholly put a stop to it.\r\nThe only guidance we can avoid these problems is by not having them here or not being too dependent on foreign workforce. Paying the 3D jobs (dirty, chancy and difficult) better wages to attract locals to do it is a start. A good minimum wage is a start too. Of course companies employing foreign workers will emit that this is not good business, but that is why we right to vote and have a giving medication †to think somewhat how best to solve this dilemma, because what’s a government here for if not to take care of its flock?\r\n'