MOTIVATED by a desire to amass wealth, often justified as return on investment, uncaring employers have always sought to suppress wages.
When countries such as Singapore and South Korea embarked on attaining a high wage income society in the 1980s, our political leadership took the approach of suppressing wages by flooding the labour market with migrant workers.
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