Friday, April 29, 2022

the wrong move on minimum wage

 

The pandemic causing bad business

Many shops or companies closed

In the last 2 years fighting Covid19

The battered internal economy


Though export markets gaining points

But the people are suffering economically

As EPF will tell us of our funds withdrawal

To tide over our predicament


The shops and companies need to survive

But does the back door care to improve it?

It came out with a minimum wage of $1,500

How can businesses stay to fight?


Our FDI has left our shores

Possibly to other neighouring countries

Offering better ways and cheap labour

Here our economy still struggling to get free


Of course the union leaders will welcome it

In all negotiations every year wages must increase

It is their jobs to milk the companies for their members

I had my share of arguments during collective agreements


Now people want jobs to survive

They aren't thinking of minimum wage

The back door just wants to push away problems

By increasing it companies may have to think again


Close shop or migrate

Our neighbours will welcome them

Because they too need to feed their people

Here we seem to push them away

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