Expats Mushrooming in KL
By anak malaysia
I write with disgust as we have more and more expats coming into Malaysia on the pretext of “transferring knowledge to the local Malaysians” under the so-called Multi Media Supercorridor and they have abused their rights to stay on in Malaysia stating … “Malaysians are not ready”. Utter rubbish.
One such banking corporation in Cyberjaya has been set up for 9 years now and today, instead of a reduced number of expats, it has has tripled and more are coming from UK, US, Singapore and India!!!
They have deprived the local Malaysians who have so much more experience and caliber and replaced locals with these expats. Dont get me wrong – we need expertise but not to the point of doing so blindly. They are creating jobs so that expats and their spouse can get a job here with luxury condos/bungalows and chauffeur-driven cars when in their own country they don’t have them.
I am hoping for this to be published and investigated through immigration, MOF, BNM and the Prime Minister’s Dept. The bank downtown lost many jobs and they are bringing in an expat to manage their change delivery?? More job cuts?? The outsourced arm in Cyberjaya has an expat from India as their HR Head – tak ada orang Malaysia yang boleh memenuhi jawatan in?? Sampai kita dipandang sebagai negara yang tak kemahiran HR??? Head of Operations dari Singapore? Head of Facility from Sri Lanka?? And many more VPs – at least 15 of them – enjoying sunny Malaysia and not wanting to go back. As we speak, more Indian and British people are being employed and due to come to KL and they get “hardship” allowance??
So where is the fairness in the job market for people with 15 – 20 years of experience as they lose out to these expats who do not match the job compatibility.
