Even if they are slacking, at least they turn up for work. They don’t mc 30 days a year or used up annual leave in two months and go unpaid 20 days a year.

Do these foreign workers paying income tax especially their gross salary reaching MYR5k?
Foreign workers can earn a lot with long hours of OT and allowances.

Employing foreign workers is more expensive than hiring locals, especially from sabah n sarawak.
There are a lot of incidental costs, hostels, utility, working permits, medical check up and others.

Why you guys so mad at minimum wage workers, 1.7k in KL can barely survive la

Another thing company that hire this minimum wage workers make millions dollar profit.. then rather pay their CEOs and board director millions of dollars bonuses while their workers can barely put food on the table. That's is modern slavery. They can always pay their workers but choose not to do so.

In mamak, each staff generates 13-15k income per month. Paying them 2k + permit and accommodation still earning money for boss. That additional 1k cost per month is still worth it.

Hiring local that works half a month means losing half of the 15k income already. Saving the little money doesn’t make up the extra earnings loss and the headache you have to deal with.

Force companies to be more efficient. Last time hire 10 workers for plantation…now use drones, harvesters and more. Baru boleh Maju.

Gg inflation

This is a silly policies to start with. Politicians thought of easy solution by increasing wage.

This indirectly raise the inflation and also cause some of the companies to hire less worker.

Also companies will be more KL centric The company will choose the better infrastructure of road, mrt and telecom signal area.

since the implementation of minimum salary is same across all state. Why brother to invest in Sabah or Kelantan?

Say hello to RM30 mix rice.

Minimum wage is implementing across all state not just KL, this will cause the investor to reluctant to invest in rural area.

If hired a worker 1.7k same in KL and Kelantan, you will prefer KL due to connectivity, more population, also people in Kl have more purchasing power. So what will happen in rural area like kelantan or Sabah? Their youngster will end up finding work in KL

Great example is look at south korea economy after they implemented min wage.

https://www.kedglobal.com/economy/newsView/ked202407120017

Sabah is different case, project ic 1.0 during pm 4 and project ic 2.0 during pm 7 already giving out almost million number. Pm4 and pm7 are the same person by the way, no surprises why he did it

Foreign worker in project ic already consider as local