A job that no locals would want.

NST 3rd Aug.
A job that no locals would want

THOSE who advocate that locals should be recruited to work in Indian restaurants have failed to understand why the owners prefer foreigners, especially from Tamil Nadu.
These Tamil workers on average are paid a meagre RM580 per mth.
They are also provided with three meals a day and a place to sleep.
They are required to work a 12 hour shift, day or night, and in some restaurants they are forbidden to sit down and rest.
There are no EPF or Socso payments. They are allowed only two days' leave in a month. In most cases, their passports are kept by the owners. The work is hard and arduous, especially at peak hours.
Many workers have to service a loan of 70K to 80k rupees (RM5,810 to RM6,640) which they had borrowed from money-lenders back home to pay the agents who enabled them to come over and work.
Would locals find these conditions attractive enough to slave in Indian Restaurants?

Veloo Saminathan-Kuala Lumpur

This article above is self explanatory. I am not capable of writing to the newspapers about my thoughts due to my bad grammar that's why I blog and talk to an empty cyberspace.

I appreciate those who take the trouble to share facts and numbers in proving their points. Shame on you who advocate this idea without better reasons or more diplomatic ways to curb whatever the problem is because the Indians have filled in the gap well and clean. They have not caused any problems to the society except for obesity and diabetes, but that's not their choice.

My answer to Mr. Veloo's last sentence is no, we won't find those conditions attractive. I do notice that they are well monitored though compared to the Indon workers who always go astray after their contract is over, thus the Indian shops worker management system should be used as as example to most construction companies who hire the Indons.