Re: M'sian minister says no to minimum wage

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He said, it would be invite more foreign workers. It is a mistake to
believe
that a minimum wage rule will mean more jobs for Malaysians as it will
also
apply to the 1.5 million foreign workers who are in the country legally.


And does this mean that the foreigners are willing to work for less, which
is the motivation why employers are willing to hire them, or is it a fact
that they are more hard working and employers don't mind paying them the 900
bucks and some more have to put them up for housing and food subsidies,
because they work harder and can give higher throughput, which is very
important in factories ? I've always liked foreigners, especially my very
good experience with my Bangladesh workers previously, who worked really
hard, for less than what I'd have to pay a local, who'd give me less
throughput, and the additional costs of putting them into housing and
helping them out with food subsidies, more than worked itself out
mathematically, because the additional daily production output, allowed my
company to grow. Since their leaving and my going back to using 100% local
workers, I've never been able to hit those figures anymore, for the last 4
years already.... sigh.


"It's only a myth as foreigners will be flooding our land for jobs with
many
(locals), especially in rural areas, being deprived of jobs," Fong was
quoted
saying by New Straits Times.

Without the minimum wage, foreigners are already flooding our shores. WTF
is he talking about here ?? And the reason the foreigners view Malaysia as
a prime destination for work is not only the fact that we have the
vacancies, but employers are generally a very fair lot, and don't mind
paying for the returns. You can do all the math on a calculator to crank
out the monthly production numbers, but if you've got cows and monkeys
operating the processes, you are not going to get the output to match the
math. If on the other hand, you have access to foreign workers who are
willing to work for the same amount of money, and get a remuneration package
+/-10% of what the norm is, that's a whole new window opened up for
employers to explore, to bring the actual monthly production figures up to
par with the ones cooked on the calculator


Thousands of workers, led by the country's largest union group, Malaysian
Trades
Union Congress (MTUC) staged a nation-wide protest last week to demand the
government fix an RM 900 monthly minimum wage.


Personally, I've never favored a minimum wage system, although it was the
minimum wage that helped me pay for my education in the US, when I was
washing dishes at minimum wage of 4.25 and hour. I thought it was very
high, but if that were the minimum wage at that time, so be it then. So I
suppose, there is some justification to the good of having a minimum wage,
otherwise the Americans wouldn't have used this system, but I've never
personally liked it.

According to the MTUC, wages of plantation, textile and garment and hotel
workers in Malaysia remain below RM 400 a month.

They can all choose to work elsewhere for more salary if they have the
skills, that's my opinion.

Malaysia is one of Asia's largest importers of labour, with foreign
workers both
legal and illegal making up about 2.6 million of the country's 10.5
million
workforce.

This sure says a lot about the potential and high regard others hold for our
nation, as a quality employer.


.

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