Originally posted by L@MiE:
Government sector to have 2.5 for bonus...
Question: what abt the private sectors?
Price inflation for almost everything... Government sectors have pay increment, so no problem...
Question: what is the government doing to help people who's working with the private sectors?
its always been the govt's stand that they will pay competitive civil service salaries in the hope that the private sector will peg and pay equivalent
starting salaries.
That, to my limited understanding, is the extent of it.
They do not (and cannot) dictate how much salary and bonus private sector must pay their employees as such things depends on the individual companies' own bottom line.
Though among my friends who are working in the govt, they enjoy higher starting salaries but really S-L-O-W increments and advancements when compared to those in the private sector.
As for the unfortunate few who had fallen through the gaps, I think its really sad and this govt had never done enough for them.
It must be recognised that not all have comfortable nest-eggs or well off children to take care of them.
Quite shameful really to see the elderly collect drink cans and selling tissue paper to make ends meet. Really wish that they would wake up and seriously consider a more substantial aid package... Wouldn't want to wait till some poor soul starves to death in a squalid one room flat...