Foreign Workers in Malaysia

Cant live with them, fag endt live without them. At least thats what quite a lot of Malaysians I bop feel about them. Deputy Human Resources Minister, Senator said that there are 1. 403 million foreigners here guardianship the Temporary Employ custodyt Visit Pass, which accounts for 11. 2% of Malaysias total workforce. Thats actually quite a lot of foreigners for a country with a 2. 7% unemployment rate as of last year. But its no use denying the fact that we need them.The fact that we still dont have minimal wage intend that there are just too many jobs out there that assume too little (from the perspective of Malaysians) and are considered non worth the trouble by Malaysians. As our embody of living continues to rise against stagnating wages, even fresh graduates earning around RM2,000 will sometimes find it hard to prolong things afloat living in Kuala Lumpur, let alone having to survive on a construction role players wages.And even now we can see foreign workers in supe rmarkets and restaurants, jobs that are considered comfortable and not heavy, further more and more locals are turning away from them simply because in the current economic climate the pay is nowhere near good enough. On the one hand its a shame that we prefer be unemployed rather than at least earning something, even if it means working a hard job with not very good pay.But on the some another(prenominal) hand its also understandable why wed prefer to hold out and pass off looking for something better, considering the economic realities that we have to face in our daily lives. The side effect of being low-level on foreign workers is that it puts a strain on a lot of things public amenities and service especially. They also compete with the poor for low cost accommodation, and the congested living conditions have also contributed to social and environmental problems.But blaming things on them will not solve anything. The fact of the matter is, these are men and women trying to make an honest living in a foreign country where their presence is not exactly welcomed with open arms. They had to leave their family behind, live in sometimes abominable and unacceptable conditions, and push themselves to the limit point to work as many hours as possible in order to send as lots money as they can home to their families.Try doing that and see if you wont find yourself in similar social problems should you be in their exact same shoes. Its easy to blame the other when youre comfortably on the other side of the fence, but not so easy when you actually look and try to empathize with them. Trying to combat these problems will definitely cost money, and if were being honest with ourselves, its just like dousing a raging fire its marvelous that we can totally put a stop to it.The only way we can avoid these problems is by not having them here or not being too dependent on foreign workforce. paid the 3D jobs (dirty, dangerous and difficult) better wages to attract locals to do it is a start. A good borderline wage is a start too. Of course companies employing foreign workers will moan that this is not good business, but that is why we vote and have a government to think about how best to solve this dilemma, because whats a government here for if not to take care of its people?