Singaporeans will always be top priority?

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During this year's May Day Rally, prime minister Lee Hsien Loong assured Singaporeans that they will always be of top priority when it comes to employment policies.

He made his point clear by saying that the government seeks to maximise the advantages for its citizens, and to provide them with jobs and a share of the nation's success. A rather indirect way to escape from the topic on the influx of foreign workers.

He did acknowledged that the pace of foreigners coming here to work need to slow down significantly in the near future because Singapore aka the little red dot can't import 80000 of them every year.

It has been almost a year since Singapore experienced its most competitive election ever which saw PM Lee's people's action party embarrassingly lost a GRC for the first time in history. PM Lee vowed to acknowledge the concerns of the people after the polls.

So what has he done? Continue giving excuses about the influx of foreigners and being reluctant to implement a minimum wage policy, something which Malaysia just announced (on 30 April) it would have.

The simple concept of introducing minimum wage to ensure the lowest-paid workers are guaranteed a certain amount of salary seems to look too difficult for PM Lee and his ministers to comprehend.

Other Asean countries like Vietnam and even the unsettled Thailand have some sort of law which is similar to minimum wage. Even Hong Kong, which possess an economy similar to Singapore, implemented a minimum wage somewhere around this time last year.

So what is the government waiting for? Waiting to get kicked voted out at the next election? Probably.