I REFER to the letter “Wage hike will benefit all” (The Star, Nov 10). Ideally, wages should be driven by market forces and not determined through statutory interventions.
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.
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