Foreign workers policy & new employment rules
As if voting for the passage of the controversial Population White Paper is not enough, some of our PAP MPs would jump at any opportunity to urge a rethinking of the “tightening” of our ultra-liberal foreign workers policy. Nee Soon GRC MP Lee Bee Wah, also Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for National...
‘Tightening of foreign labour’ a lie
Government claims to have been tightening on foreign labour could never be reconciled with a population white paper that laid out a path to GDP growth through massive immigration. As I wrote at that time, propaganda rather than policy changes appeared to be driving the debate. The truth – that the government is not tightening...
Is the GST rationale still valid after 20 years?
In 1994, Good and Services Tax (GST) was introduced as part of an overall tax reform package. The idea of a consumption based tax was to move away from the heavy reliance on income taxes for the government’s revenue. The main objective behind this tax reform was to promote exports in order to make the economy more competitive....
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