The government is right to tighten foreign worker inflows as Singapore restructures but Lee Bee Wah (Nee Soon GRC) worries that the pace of productivity improvements may not match the cuts in foreign manpower.
On day two of Parliament’s debate on Budget 2013 yesterday, Lee said workers and supervisors needed time to learn and adopt new technology.
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