
Do Lower-Wage Jobs in Singapore Have No Dignity?? ft. Senior Minister of State Zaqy Mohamad | 19 Mar 2023
The Daily Ketchup
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The Impact of Wages Against Costs of Living
There's a link between how much you pay people and how much your food prices and everything else costs. So there is a cost and effect, whereas if you look at overseas, you realize the costs are not the same, and therefore they pay better. We have to also think about the impact of wages against costs of living, you know, standard of life, and then how that evolves. I'm quite pessimistic about this, honestly, so one of those things I was quite surprised, actually, once we had these conversations with the labor movement, with employers in Singapore. You'd be surprised at how even while in the pandemic, it's actually, they agreed to anywhere between 50 plus
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