PETALING JAYA: The Pakatan Harapan government’s manifesto to raise minimum wage to RM1,500 should not be made mandatory for the plantation sector, according to Sime Darby Plantation Bhd.
The plantation giant’s executive deputy chairman and managing director Tan Sri Mohd Bakke Salleh (pic) said the proposal to increase the minimum wage from the current RM1,000 threshold, would hike production costs and affect domestic plantation players negatively.
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