Yahoo! News Singapore, 18 Jan 2012Singapore’s parliament on Wednesday evening passed a motion to approve a set of recommendations made by the ministerial salary review committee.
Concluding a three-day parliamentary debate on the independent panel’s recommendations, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean said he was happy that opposition members of parliament (MPs) seem to have taken a more agreeable position on the issue.
“For the first time, the Workers’ Party has stated that it accepted benchmarking salaries competitively, similar to the approach taken by the committee, and a fundamental departure from their past proposals,” said Teo in his closing remarks before MPs voted on the recommended salary benchmarks. Full story
