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Re: [sangkancil] Ban on foreign workers
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- Subject: Re: [sangkancil] Ban on foreign workers
- From: "truth outhere" <capati98@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 16:27:45 GMT
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why only pilots mas now have gone recruitment drive for expats engineers
when nvr tried getting them localy.we have hundreds of linced aircraft
maintennce eng at present working within/outside the country .why cant mas
make an offer to these chaps.
there is something very wrong with mas manage ment .....they top reates in
excess of 30pounds an hour for foreig engineer. and pay 65 /hr for local
even though they wokr the same ......
it seems we do still have the colonial mentality ..kill the local first
<izzlya@tm.net.my>
>Reply-To: "izzlya" <izzlya@tm.net.my>
>To: sangkancil@malaysia.net
>CC: <Sangkancil@malaysia.net>
>Subject: Re: [sangkancil] Ban on foreign workers
>Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:58:13 +0800
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Chin Koon Siang <KSChin@snt.com.my>
>To: <Sangkancil@malaysia.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 14:48
>Subject: [sangkancil] Ban on foreign workers
>
>
> > From Stratfor-
> >
> >
> > Malaysia's Ban on Foreign Workers Risks Regional
> > Cooperation
> > 0149 GMT, 000301
> >
> > The Malaysian government has forbidden the
> > employment of
> > foreign workers in 134 specific job categories,
> > announced Deputy
> > Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Feb. 28.
> > By ensuring
> > these jobs will only be open to Malaysian
> > nationals, Badawi
> > hopes to regain national support for his
> > political party, United
> > Malays National Organization (UMNO), and
> > strengthen party unity.
> > As a result of this action, though, the ruling
> > government may face
> > growing regional resentment.
> >
> > Presently, there are 697,219 registered foreign
> > workers in
> > Malaysia. Foreigners who currently hold
> > positions in these now
> > forbidden jobs may finish their contracted
> > terms. Such forbidden
> > positions will include that of musician,
> > salesperson, insurance and
> > real estate salesperson, office clerk, tour
> > guide, mechanic,
> > telephone operator and cashier.
> >
> > The ban on foreign workers is not in response
> > to high
> > unemployment in Malaysia. Unemployment in 1999
> > dropped to 3
> > percent and continues to decline. Instead, the
> > move is aimed at
> > serving a number of goals for the ruling party
> > and leader ? to
> > strengthen support for and unify the party. In
> > the November 1999
> > election UMNO lost many seats to its rival
> > Muslim Parti Islam Se
> > Malaysia (PAS), and the elections exacerbated
> > UMNO dissent
> > among members because of the ongoing trial of
> > Mahathir's
> > previous heir apparent, Anwar Ibrahim.
> >
> > Guaranteeing employment to only Malaysian
> > nationals could
> > garner lost support that UMNO needs to retain
> > power and could
> > undermine local support for PAS. Plus, the ban
> > on foreign workers
> > might help the party increase cohesiveness and
> > make the party
> > grow stronger.
> >
> > Party strength, however, cannot be secured
> > unless Mahathir's
> > successor, likely Badawi, has support. But with
> > Badawi leading the
> > effort to restrict foreign workers, he is
> > likely to gain support among
> > the electorate and increase his chances of
> > being Mahathir's
> > successor. Mahathir, 74, is growing old,
> > leaving doubt as to
> > whether he will even finish his term that ends
> > in 2004.
> >
> > Badawi's announcement flies in the face of
> > recent calls by
> > Malaysia for increased pan-Asian unity. Both
> > the Philippines and
> > Indonesia, two of Malaysia's closest neighbors
> > experienced high
> > unemployment rates in 1999, with 9.9 percent
> > and 15.5 percent
> > respectively. The two countries also comprise
> > more than 75
> > percent of Malaysia's foreign workforce. Though
> > the government's
> > ban may fulfill lofty goals for UMNO and its
> > leaders, Malaysia
> > faces the possibility of receiving a cold
> > shoulder from these
> > neighboring countries.
> >
> > Malaysia is attempting to be a regional leader,
> > urging Asia to
> > increase economic and security cooperation. But
> > by turning away
> > immigrants in need of work and willing to send
> > some of their
> > wages home, Malaysia faces the risk of
> > undermining efforts to
> > improve regional cooperation.
> >
> >
> >
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> > 1) But why Ananda Krishnan still have 2 "Mat Salleh" pilots to fly his
>executive jet with 'x' number of "Minah Salleh" stewardess ????? What so
>special about them?
> >
>
>2) But why MAS still have 24 foreign pilots to fly F50, B737 and B747-200?
>What so special about them?
>
>For info, we have hundreds of jobless licenced pilot in country and they
>are
>equally qualified if not better. Could someone please clarify this?
>
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