Foreign Workers

Went to lunch at one of the hawkers center near my office. I was surprised to see no foreign workers at the hawker stores. The hawkers are preparing and serving food themselves.

After asking one of the “lobak” store owner, I was told that the government do not allow them to hire foreign workers and furthermore if they were to hire, the fee is more than 10k per worker.

It is about time that hawkers not to rely on foreign workers and work for their own earnings. Before the foreign workers were ban, some of the hawkers just leave all their works to the foreign workers and they just sit around chatting, gambling, and drinking. Some of the hawkers who are more entrepreneurial open a few stores and ask the foreign workers to manage it.