Towards the end of 2010, when the Malaysian government lower the
cost of making passports for Malaysians, infact they can do it
within 1 hr at the most 1 day processing the passport for
RM100, many Malaysian Malays started to work
in Singapore. So its easier, cheaper and faster for them to make
passport.
Most of them work in the manufacturing industry, cleaning
industry and in the fast food chain restaurants in Singapore. Only
this year, there lesser of them working here partly because of the
mandatory enforcement of minimum salary of RM900 per month by the Malaysian government. You see,
before this labour law was implemented in Malaysia, most of the
Malay Malaysians working in the cleaning industry in Singapore,
their monthly basic salary was about S$400 to S$450 per month
without overtime.
So now, it doesn’t make much difference if they work in
Singapore since in Malaysia they work for a minimum basic salary of
RM900 per month. However, you can still see
many of the Malay Malaysian youth still working in the fast food
chain restaurants in Singapore.
Since in the past until now, they are many Malay Malaysians
working in construction industry, marine industry and manufacturing
industry in Singapore. You can’t see them, unless you take a look
early morning at the long flow of Malaysians riding on their
motorcycles on the causeway into Singapore or the number of
chartered factory buses going into Singapore Woodlands Checkpoint
early morning or when you take a public bus early morning from JB
into Singapore. You can see them.
For Security Industry in Singapore, Malay Malaysians are
prohibited. Only Malaysian Chinese and Indians are allowed to work
in Security Industry in Singapore.
