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SINGAPORE – Workers’ Party (WP) MP Jamus Lim (Sengkang GRC) made several suggestions on minimum wage and compassionate policymaking in his maiden speech in Parliament on Thursday (Sept 3), drawing a string of questions from People’s Action Party (PAP) MPs, including Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam (Jurong GRC).
During the debate on the President’s Address, Associate Professor Lim argued, among other things, that many problems faced by segments of the population such as low-wage workers, the elderly and single mothers, could be attributed to “insufficient compassion in our policymaking process”.
While he acknowledged that Singapore has a form of minimum wage in the Progressive Wage Model (PWM), he noted that it was not universal and suggested Singapore could implement “a simple, across-the-board minimum wage”.
The employment impact of such a minimum wage would “likely be very limited”, he added.
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