Venus, many aspects of ordinary life Malaysia talked about. - Screengrab image
Kuala Lumpur: The Malaysian Tindakan Ekonomi Melayu by #sayaZahra video campaign with so resonates. The six-minute video is very powerful. This paper certificate, but living like beggars who graduated with leaving a generation, is an indictment of the failure of public policies.
Zahra such income, education, housing, transport, (when faced with accidents or illness), the social safety net as many aspects of the lives of ordinary Malaysians talked about. In this piece, the only "way to play better Zahra" I would like to focus on the question.
Twenty years ago, freshly graduated lawyers in Kuala Lumpur, play around RM2,000 a month's salary was considered quite satisfactory.
Today, fresh graduate lawyers earn slightly more than RM2,000 a month. Taking inflation into account, the level of income for young lawyers a massive decline.
Zahra aspires to become a qualified lawyer, and her salary is now probably less than fresh graduate lawyers.
So, how can we better pay? Young lawyers for how to reverse the decline of income level?
Zahra to play better, dramatically Malaysia is an urgent need to restructure the economy.
Minimum wage regulation can be one of many times, however, just below the level of the minimum wage can work well. Other levels of government in a rigid salary scale is almost impossible to determine. Yet, the policy toolkit in different ways to influence the outcome.
Venus, more sustainable way to pay better wages, high skills and high productivity is to ensure that there is a virtuous cycle. Malaysia no longer depend on unskilled foreign labor is the only way.
Garbage collectors
Zahra and her colleagues to pay garbage collectors to pay the Malaysian economy will have to start with. Many of those at the bottom are better paid only when a rising tide will occur.
A garbage collector paid RM2,000 per month, say, Malaysian Society of fresh (probably worth RM2,000 same as in 1995) graduated lawyers RM4,000 per month will pay.
Garbage collectors are paid RM2,000 if not all freshly graduated lawyers instead choose to become garbage collectors, then, everyone else's income will go up.
You must be thinking that I'm joking. How a garbage collector can fathom the possibility of being paid RM2,000 per month in the job market. We are managing our economy, but it is possible.
Currently, garbage collection and urban cleaning often by local authorities or agencies CRONY solid waste management contractors are given lucrative contracts.
I usually take a cut of the partners and will deliver real work to a subcontractor.
By the time it still can not be profitable real subcontractor is reached. Subcontractor, ever, are concerned about cost cutting such as 3D jobs (dangerous, dirty and demeaning) to carry out unskilled foreign workers will be hired. Between RM600 and RM900 per month they are paid.
A garbage truck driver in India a lowly paid and will hire four to five Bangladeshi workers. But in many developed countries, most everything automated garbage trucks being driven by a person. Automation, machines, skills and technologies in an economy that relies on large automated garbage truck driver machine operator as a driver and is paid for his role.
We show a rounder garbage collector can pay RM2,000 a month? Is it possible? The answer is a firm 'yes'. Key benefits of their 'cable' contract and the abundance of unskilled foreign labor supply is to remove the contractor to obtain CRONY-.
Unskilled foreign labor
Not only in the case of garbage collection but as almost every other sector of the economy, Malaysia, in, does not have the skills to develop new technology, and innovation is not interested in.
Industries are not climbing the ladder. It is the easy way out as unskilled foreign workers are satisfied with profiting from.
However, not solve the problem alone is accusing industries. Machine tools and automation industries to increase the funding is not found. Research and development (R & D) is too low to support.
He will not be able to move the ladder Knowing that, employers machine working like a large number of unskilled foreign workers are satisfied with hiring. Many employers and foreign workers, than workers in Malaysia often slow and burdened by the mourning family commitments.
The root of the problem more unskilled foreign labor policy to bring deliberate lies.
Every foreign workers brought into the country, some colleagues will make a cut somewhere. Malaysian Human Resources Minister Richard Riot of which about 2.5 million are documented more than 6 million foreign workers, he claimed. Interior Minister Zahid Hamidi 1.5 million in the next three years, wants to bring in Bangladesh.
Hotels like 7-Eleven and those in the service sector jobs, jobs with decent pay out the run-down on unskilled foreign labor, if taken by Malaysia. Some settle for a lower pay. Some live idly by. Some commit crimes.
Colleagues
Venus and the economy is not in pursuit of higher skills and values as, for colleagues who have university degrees, they are stuck. Employers only working like machines "good workers" need. With or without a degree, they are not valued. Of course, such a vicious cycle, our students, our education system was not ready.
Such conditions leave and work elsewhere can not afford some of the skilled workforce. Most highly educated and skilled, at least 1.5 million Malaysians are working overseas.
Zahra how to play better?sound and technology upgrades to make available resources for a massive push.
I was 20 in 1997, when the Asian financial crisis hit Malaysia. Since then, significant improvements in Malaysia's economy and politics, and have been muddling through without changes.
Zahra's speech touched me when I was very emotional. We have ruined their race. Do not waste it.
