
A one-of-a-kind union that rejects minimum wage
Can Zorro Lim at least pretend he has workers' interest at heart once in a while? Every good party needs a clown to provide the laughs, and it was Zorro Lim (not his real name) on the PAP roster yesterday. At the Budget debate, NTUC Secretary-General Lim Swee Say rejected renewed calls by several MPs, including Inderjit...

Dr Janil Puthucheary is very free
Dr Janil Puthucheary Seriously I am wondering what some PAP MPs are smoking. First we had a 'brilliant idea' by Senior Counsel MP Hri Kumar for a National Defense duty for new citizens unable to serve NS (as opposed to improving or shortening NS for citizens) and MP Inderjit Singh has proposed to scrap the parliamentary whip...

Going for free
Day one of the Budget wayang in session kicked off with this figure of $3.6 billion allocated for the Wage Credit Scheme, which has the present Government co-paying 40 percent of wage increases for Singaporean workers for the next 3 years. Forget for a moment how much of this amount will actually trickle down to benefit the...
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