Minimum Wage Malaysia 2019 Foreign Workers
The minimum hourly wage in peninsular malaysia is rm4 81 compared to rm4 42 in sabah sarawak and labuan.
Minimum wage malaysia 2019 foreign workers. Minimum wages in malaysia averaged 1000 myr month from 2013 until 2020 reaching an all time high of 1200 myr month in 2020 and a record low of 900 myr month in 2014. Socso employment injury scheme for foreign workers skim bencana kerja perkeso sbkp 5 2019 minimum wages order 2018 4 2019 summary of the national budget 2019 3 2019. As a result of this announcement the minimum wages order 2016 will have to be revoked and replaced. Shamsuddin had said that it would cause much confusion and anxiety among the.
The minimum wage for non urban areas small towns and rural areas will remain at the present rate of rm1 100. Minimum wage benefits foreign workers not locals. By mt webmaster on dec 21 2019 mmo. Kuala lumpur nov 2 after workers protested against the minimum wage quantum set at rm1 050 monthly the government today raised it to rm1 100 starting january 1 next year.
Effective 1 january 2019 the entire malaysia will have the same minimum wage. In a statement today malaysian employers federation mef executive director datuk shamsuddin bardan said currently foreign workers are repatriating about rm34 billion annually and this had not taken. Malaysia with a population of 32 million people is heavily dependent on foreign labour who are concentrated in blue collar work. The current minimum wage is rm1 000 in peninsular malaysia and rm920 in sarawak and sabah.
Read our previous article about the minimum wage here. Any wage increases for foreign workers should be in line with the actual quality of their work he was quoted saying in response to complaints of higher living costs from the. With an estimated six million foreign workers in malaysia and assuming half of them are at least at the minimum wage threshold of rm1 200 now the higher minimum wage of rm1 500 for all workers. There are some 1 76 million foreign workers who work legally in.
Minimum wage benefits foreign workers not locals.