A minimum wage puts a damper on motivation, does not reward skill-upgrading and flatten wages for the most vulnerable workers.
Tag: Wages
The pandemic has been merciless for some struggling families like Wong Wai Hong where the pandemic has impacted his life, and beyond.
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When PSD discovered the errors, they spend 2 years to do an extensive search to check and verify the errors to make rectification.
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Challenging, physically demanding. You can be a harbour pilot if you enjoy scaling a huge vessel in open sea to pilot it in local waters.
Challenging, physically demanding. You can be a harbour pilot if you enjoy scaling a huge vessel in open sea to pilot it in local waters.
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It's simplistic to think that the problems of the poor are just due to a reduced paycheck.
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The risk of a national minimum wage being politicised is real. It has happened elsewhere in the world and it is happening here now. SDP has jumped in to propose a higher minimum wage.
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98.3% are already earning more than $1300 a month. PWM will be extended to all sectors.
With the PWM for the Lift and Escalator ready to phase in and the proposal for the Waste Management sector submitted, the number earning less than $1300 will be further reduced.
With sectorial benchmarks for sectors currently without a PWM, what WP wants to achieve with MW is already achieved through PWM, WIS and these other policy measures.
98.3% are already earning more than $1300 a month. PWM will be extended to all sectors. With the PWM for the Lift and Escalator ready to phase in and the proposal for the Waste Mangement sector submitted, the number earning less than $1300 will be further reduced. With sectoral benchmarks for sectors currently without a PWM, what WP wants to achieve with MW is already achieved through PWM, WIS and these other policy measures.
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If minimum wage is the magic solution, the PAP Government would have implemented it long ago to make themselves very popular.
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