| Tie wage increase to skills The introduction of minimum wages through the National Minimum Wages Council Act 2012 has distorted the labour market and, to a large extent, impacted on the cost of production that has in turn caused inflation to balloon.The Star Online
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Thursday, 15 November 2018 |
| Implementation of Minimum Wages for Foreign Workers The Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) would like to respond to the editorial "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" (NST, Jan 10). Having to deal with inflation following the implementation of national minimum wages is somewhat a forgone conclusion.New Straits Times
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Monday, 14 January 2013 |
| Alarm bells over unions’ bluster on RM 1,500 base wage The country’s main labour centre’s push for a RM1,500 per month base wage has raised the hackles of other stakeholders who warn that businesses will collapse while inflation spirals out of control with such minimum salaries.The Malaysian Insider
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Saturday, 3 September 2011 |
| A difficult task Should subsidies be reduced when inflation is worsening? How much should it be reduced? How should low-income earners be assisted after subsidy reduction? All these are thorny problems.Sin Chew Daily
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011 |
| Federation against private sector Cola Its executive director Shamsuddin Barden said the allowance was not justified by the present rate of inflation. He said the prevailing consumer price index of 3.5 per cent was not indicative of a "fantastically high cost of living" environment.New Sunday Times
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Sunday, 16 October 2005 |