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Category: Opinion
Opinion letters from Readers
Lee Hsien Yang the filial son or vengeful son bent on bringing disrepute to his brother’s success while standing to gain from his father’s last Will.
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It is misguided to think we are grappling with low-income workers or inequality because of meritocracy.
Every country in the world is grappling with the same.
It is misguided to think we are grappling with low-income workers or inequality because of meritocracy.
Every country in the world is grappling with the same.
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Mother of special needs boy wrote to express her fear that her special needs son may lose his job if a minimum wage of $1300 take-home pay is mandated.
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It took time and hard work to roll out the progressive Wage models. Because for something to work, you have to convince and bring every stakeholder on board. You have to take into account the needs of the industries, the interests of both employers and employees.
All of these require careful considerations and study. It is not like setting a min wage where you decide on what you think is an acceptable wage without due considerations for all other aspects.
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Jamus repeated himself that union leaders had only beliefs and opinions on the minimum wage.
They did not work with data.
Jamus repeated himself that union leaders had only beliefs and opinions on the minimum wage. They did not work with data.
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Union leader Karthikeyan Krishnamurthy is obviously upset by Jamus' Lim for disdaining their 'wisdom and beliefs'.
Jamus Lim knows nothing about workers or their worker representative.
Can WP elaborate on how they intend to help workers since they have 'workers' to their name?
Union leader Karthikeyan Krishnamurthy is obviously upset by Jamus' Lim for disdaining their 'wisdom and beliefs'. Jamus Lim knows nothing about workers or their worker representative. Can WP elaborate on how they intend to help workers since they have 'workers' to their name?
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The Workers' Party should be honest with who pays for the increased cost of a minimum wage and not take the populist route.
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Minimum wages do not help to increase productivity.
It is better to see the PWM as the govt straddling the middle ground between recognising that low-wage workers do have genuine problems amidst rising costs of living, and recognising that we shouldn’t take our eye off the problems of sluggish productivity growth.
Minimum wages do not help to increase productivity. It is better to see the PWM as the govt straddling the middle ground between recognising that low-wage workers do have genuine problems amidst rising costs of living, and recognising that we shouldn’t take our eye off the problems of sluggish productivity growth.
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The idea that growth & carbon reductions are somehow "complementary" is absurd, unless we are able to produce goods & services without energy consumption. Trade-offs should be honestly acknowledged by environmentalists rather than obfuscated, he said.
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