These youngsters think too highly of themselves.
I know! Let's Rob then off their rightful pay.

Dah tua pun bodoh

Malaysian employers cheap skate deserved to get monkeys while other countries lure all our best talents and keep them with care until retirement.

My opis intern 1K being paid. Good value. Belajar dapat duit dapat. Win liao lor.

Nope. A youngster being hired as part of the staff is different. An intern is only there for a few months.

You don't really have to be someone doing the hiring to understand that.

Part timer dont get paid too huh

More like:

unpaid/pay as you like: suka hati u la, u nak datang, datang la. tak nak pun tak apa.
minimum pay: hmm, ok let us get back to you on that. <thinking baik hire full time staff. gila ke mamat ni. lol.>

some poeple. intern are just free labor

Well, let's just say I am not a fan of the gig economy. It is very disadvantageous to the worker in the long run.

so the boss agree that the intern is working la, not learn under him..

Bayar lumpsum cheaper

topkekw , even u are big 4 or big mnc , these company at least pay money, intern should be pay 1000 max, but i know IT field is 2k at least

It is more toward Corporate & Social Respinsibity (CSR) as stated. Those companies who takes the interns want the undergraduates to complete their industrial training & to let them have the exposure of the working enviroment.

To pay or not pay ? I say pay for them to cover the meals & transportation. At the same time train them / let them face the real working pressure within the training period.

If you want our nation to progress, the whole industrial landscape need to be transformed. There are need to be have more collaborations between universities & industries, so that the tertiary education are producing the work force that our industries needed without having to retrain them.

if im the intern - yes
if im the boss - no

Interns do for the experience and it cost the company money. Hence, it does not make sense for interns to get paid.

Companies do it as a social responsibility and lately for assessment for future hiring. There are however, part time jobs that can be used as internship and in those cases, it makes sense to provide a reasonable pay.

interns in taiwan get paid more than 3k

Would like to say that there are different tertiary education. To be immediately productive, that would be skills based training whereas to be able to adapt and learn on their own, foundational knowledge should be the focus. Because we focus too much on "industry ready", the nation actually won't progress. No innovators.

And how many actual innovators are there. Sorry most ppl are just cogs in the machine.

bodo ka?
you gib work, pay lah
kedekut mampoi
open company kenot/donwan pay for pipu work, work by yourself la

Any many companies don't assign them meaningful work because

I have seen many who think like you. How are they supposed to learn if nothing meaningful is assigned to them because "they are temporary and not reliable"? Isn't that rather contradictory?

Even more so for those bosses who assume all interns aren't reliable before even testing them by assigning simple tasks.

haha....my neighbour daughter complain her company treated her like slave

make coffee, buy food, send agrement document to client...etc without reimburse her anything