Minimum wage ‘half-baked’ attempt

Stephanie Sta Maria

 | May 2, 2012

An economist, however, says that East Malaysians would be grateful for the minimum wage but will be questioning the 'perceived inequality'.

PETALING JAYA: A political observer has branded the newly introduced mininum wage as a “half-baked” attempt to settle a long-standing dispute.
James Chin of Monash University noted that if it was a living wage that the government had in mind then the rate had to be nothing less than RM1,000.
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