NCMP Leong Mun Wai urged the government to rebalance its manpower policy, citing growing underemployment and the need for greater transparency in employment data for Singaporeans and PRs. He highlighted rising education costs, stagnant wages, and worsening housing affordability, calling for fair job opportunities, better wages, and stronger social support to build a “first-world Singapore” […]
In his address to Parliament during Budget 2025, NCMP Leong Mun Wai acknowledged the short-term financial relief provided but criticized the government’s reliance on ad hoc handouts, arguing that such measures fail to address Singapore’s long-term structural economic challenges. He advocated for permanent policies such as affordable public housing, a national healthcare scheme, a minimum
In the Parliament session on the 8th January 2025, NCMP Leong Mun Wai welcomed the Workplace Fairness Bill as a step toward addressing workplace discrimination but raised concerns about its adequacy in protecting Singaporeans’ job prospects. Highlighting issues like wage disparities, underemployment, and exemptions, he called for stronger measures and a holistic approach to ensure
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It’s a start of a new year but our work in Parliament continues. Presented are the Parliament Questions that have been submitted by NCMPs Hazel Poa and Leong Mun Wai in this month’s session. Mr Leong Mun Wai: To ask the Minister for Digital Development and Information (a) what was the process by which the
NCMP Leong Mun Wai delivered his closing speech remarks after Parliament voted in favour of the amended Hawker Centre Motion. In his speech, he stressed safeguarding Singapore’s hawker culture and ensuring fair livelihoods for hawkers amid rising costs, manpower shortages, and corporatisation. He also called for abolishing the social enterprise model, revising tender and rental
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NCMP Leong Mun Wai raised the following motion in Parliament on 13 November 2024: Hawker Culture: This House calls on the Government to review its policies relating to hawkers and the management of hawker centres to provide better support for hawkers to sustain and grow our Singapore’s hawker culture so that Singaporeans can continue to
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