Singapore civil service sector gets pay rise
| Agence
France Presse June 29, 2000 Singapore SINGAPORE will increase the salaries of 70,000 employees in the civil service sector in order to keep pace with that of the private sector, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said today in parliament. The salary increases were necessary in order to attract talent into the government sector, he said. "Recruiting and retaining talent is vital to the civil service, as it is to any private sector company," Lee said. "But with the economic pick-up and the powerful forces of globalisation and the IT (information technology) revolution, attracting and retaining talent is quickly becoming a real problem across the whole civil service sector," he added. Civil service employees' salaries have been frozen since 1998 as part of the government's efforts to encourage wage restraint during the 1998-1999 recession. |