Questions about how to better protect workers who may fall through the cracks and help them reskill are among those the Ministry of Manpower's (MOM) new leaders will likely have to wrestle with, says Mr Zainal Sapari, deputy chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Manpower.
Take defining a living wage for workers. The Government has long refrained from following in the footsteps of other countries like Britain that have done so.
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