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It seems that the government is extremely reluctant to implement a policy of minimum wages because it has been able to transfer business costs in the form of the above triple acronym to taxpayers. This amount is significantly lower than the amount borne by businesses should a policy of minimum wages be implemented.
Is this due to the government being involved in ‘too many’ businesses and losing sight from the people’s perspective?
“With the WIS, WTS and Progressive Wage Model, we believe we now have a minimum wage model. In fact, it’s more than a minimum wage model whereby we can maximise the upside of low-wage workers and at the same time minimise the downside,” said Mr Lim.
Why is Mr Lim bragging that it is “more than a minimum wage model” when it has essentially failed Singaporeans. To be frank, all this talk of maximising and minimising is really incoherent and illogical.
Transferring business costs to taxpayers is really nothing to be proud of. What does it take to wake the government up to acknowledge that a large percentage of Singaporeans do not earn enough to raise a family? Is giving them tens of dollars per month not an insult today’s high cost of living?
Including more Singaporeans into WIS confirms a worsening problem and not the generosity of the government. Should our maxi-mini model fare worse than anticipated, does Mr Lim intend to increase the current 30 per cent recipients to, say, 70 per cent eventually?
As the government continues tweaking here and there and make belief that we do indeed have a superior minimum wage model, we will fall even further behind other countries.
Mr Lim seems to be confused with real minimum wage and Singapore government handout in the form of WIS supported by WTS and PWM.
Mr Lim also said that “The third component is the labour movement’s progressive wage system where four factors are pulled together to improve the workers’ well-being.”
This cannot be further from reality because WIS has already become a permanent feature. Has the government conducted a survey of low-income workers if their well being has improved?
It is the abject failure of the labour unions and government policies that have resulted in at least 480,000 Singaporeans qualifying for government handouts.
- http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2013/03/minimum-wage-open-letter-lim-swee/
Is this due to the government being involved in ‘too many’ businesses and losing sight from the people’s perspective?
“With the WIS, WTS and Progressive Wage Model, we believe we now have a minimum wage model. In fact, it’s more than a minimum wage model whereby we can maximise the upside of low-wage workers and at the same time minimise the downside,” said Mr Lim.
Why is Mr Lim bragging that it is “more than a minimum wage model” when it has essentially failed Singaporeans. To be frank, all this talk of maximising and minimising is really incoherent and illogical.
Transferring business costs to taxpayers is really nothing to be proud of. What does it take to wake the government up to acknowledge that a large percentage of Singaporeans do not earn enough to raise a family? Is giving them tens of dollars per month not an insult today’s high cost of living?
Including more Singaporeans into WIS confirms a worsening problem and not the generosity of the government. Should our maxi-mini model fare worse than anticipated, does Mr Lim intend to increase the current 30 per cent recipients to, say, 70 per cent eventually?
As the government continues tweaking here and there and make belief that we do indeed have a superior minimum wage model, we will fall even further behind other countries.
Mr Lim seems to be confused with real minimum wage and Singapore government handout in the form of WIS supported by WTS and PWM.
Mr Lim also said that “The third component is the labour movement’s progressive wage system where four factors are pulled together to improve the workers’ well-being.”
This cannot be further from reality because WIS has already become a permanent feature. Has the government conducted a survey of low-income workers if their well being has improved?
It is the abject failure of the labour unions and government policies that have resulted in at least 480,000 Singaporeans qualifying for government handouts.
- http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2013/03/minimum-wage-open-letter-lim-swee/
