Workers' Party calls for ministerial pay to be published annually

WP clearly has the formula correct even if it seems some ministers may be drawing more. The outrageous bonus of 13.5 months is gone. The ill-conceived and arbitrary pegging to Private Top 1000 wage earners, is also removed. The WP clearly has placed Singapore's interest first. Well done.

the world world is watching with laughter while we make a mockery of ourselves. the reason is singaporeans are v.unhappy with the way the ruling party having a free hand in deciding only by themselves, how much each minister should be paid. they have got away for the last 20 something years bcos it was not a contentious issue then. people were more concerned with education, getting over day to day issues to make ends meet. now, singaporeans are well educated, tech savvy and more knowlegable. we became a matured and developed society. with the huge influx of fts and fws widely promoted by the govt. over the years, it slowly dawned upon us that our very own survival in our backyards are threatened by these foreigners. they took our jobs with cheap labour in times of difficulty. singaporeans have to work till 70 to upkeep themselves as the govt do not believe in subsidies. when a family daily needs are insuffcient needs and when ministers are aloof and drawing million $ salaries, how do you expect the man on the ground to react. the blame obviously fell squarely on the govt. and the inner loop of ministers. now, they said they are listening. those days, it was all noise. let them hear the loudest noise ever, come ge2016.

I totally agree that the Ministers' salaries including bonuses should be published annually if the Government claims that it is adopting a clean wage policy with no hidden perks. Ultimately their salaries are paid by our taxpayers' monies and we deserve to know what each Minister is getting. This is what transparency and accountability means.

Look at all the PAP Ministers, most of them are from civil services, NTUC or GLCs before they join politics, they were certainly no where near the 1000 top earners, so please speak with facts, PAP

If we want to be truly transparent, would the ministers and MPs declare their other incomes from being independent directors, board members, advisers etc, and their assets annually? Many countries, including Malaysia does this. These are all benefits which would not have been possible if they were not political appointment holders!

Is our MP 100% working as MP or still earning from other sideline?

Spot on WP!

There should be no secrecy about the pay! It should be published annually for all to know!

Do our young political office holders derserve their million dollar pay? Are Singaporean generally doing better compared to 10 years ago?

Also must declare who is related to who in the cabinet, parliament, GLCs, lCs and civil service . I am not surprise if there re many related people in these places. There were already too many senseless appointment to some jobs, so I am not surprise. This will reveal how clean the government is, since they are the one that declare they want Clean wages. Go the second mile lor, it would be good, since it might help you look cleaner too. So, declare all related parties, relatives in those organisations !!

NCMP Yee has made a valid and very good point to substantiate WP's proposal, and that is, since ministers are elected as MP by their voters, their pay should be based on the MP's allowance and not on the 1,000 so called top earners. That, I say, is a very good reasoning to give, because before he can become a minister, a PAP candidate has first to be elected as a n MP. So why must his pay be based on the high income earners in the industries?

WP, you are getting more and more relevant to Singaporeans day by day. Well done ! This is the party that truly represents the ideals and aspirations of Singaporeans of today. The PAP MPs are showing their naive attitude by saying the WP's proposal is the same as that of the Review Committee. Although the figures arrived at may be about approximate to each other, the manner in which they are derived is totally different. Two persons may arrive at the same destination, one using vehicular transport and the other using leg power. Though they may arrive at the same location, their mode of travel is different. Obviously the PAP MPs in parliament are not trained accountants or having any inkling what auditing is all about. What they are saying is akin to saying a $1 balance in an account is the same for every account showing $1 balance, which is far from the truth. One account may show a deposit (credit) of $1 to show a balance of $1 at account closing. The other account may involve a deposit of $3 and a withdrawal of $2 to show a net balance of $1. Clearly they may both show a balance of $1, but they are not the same in transactional value. PAP MPs, and even a minister (Law) do not even understand the basic principle of values. How naive of them.

Vikram Nair couldn't even get his own facts right before jumping into the fray and has to be corrected by his boss. Is this the degree of quality that are taxpayers are expected to pay for?

TO All Aljunied RESIDENTS,
Thanks for voting in WP, Glad now we have voices in our Parliament and some form of democracy in this country. Kudos to 8 WP Mps and Lina Chiam too!

Yes ! We support it, We want to know the annual salary of PM, All Ministers & MPs.

Well done, WP. We neeed good national policies and monitoring system to be in place.

The political salaries and national bonuses paid to leaders should be published yearly and subject to public scrutiny.

We need the opposition MP-elected to perform the check and balance on PAP governhment as we lost hope on them.

When LHL talk rubbish, he get 10 fools to suport and rebroadcast.
When Chen Shao Mao speaks, all netizen and the 40% voters support volunteery, because it make sense.

To be in line with the so call “clean wage”;
PM and ministers to declare their assets and annual income,
PM, ministers to declare other gainful employment such as chairman of GIC / board of directors and the perks.

Thus far, I am very pleased with WP's performance, not being a flaming talking speaker, doing appropriate thing at the right time, given deep thought and preparation over an issue of concern to all Singaporeans, work as a political party not self, prudent in not making rash or emotional response and act as the ruling party, PA, infiltrators, spies are all out to find fault with this ONLY HOPE for the 40% singaporeans in Aljunied and Hougang
May I urge ALL singaporeans to give this humble, down to earth, determined party a chance to make significant inroad into Parliament so that Policies can be shaped for the betterment of future SIngapore? Thank you

Spot on. PM Lee, please see to it that it is done !
Since you are so un-talented, do you need to appoint another committee to do it?

If there is no difference between the WP's proposal and that of MSRC's, then, have the grace to accept the former's proposal. I believe you will score more political point by doing so. :-)