SOME time back, a white-collar foreign worker told me he wished he had worked in Malaysia earlier. The reason for his frank opinion is his retirement savings. He calculated that he would have had a tidy nest egg that would have been enough for him to retire with despite having worked in Malaysia for far less a time than most Malaysians would have.
He was surprised that his contribution to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) was a sizeable percentage from both him and his employer, and that amount was not capped.
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