Strait Lies, 19 June 2003
FAIR TREATMENT A MUST
“If civil servants think they are not being treated fairly, we will have a problem.”
- DPM Lee, on not cutting salaries for the sake of cutting
PAYING FOR QUALITY
“The present benchmarks are still the right targets to aim for …. If we want people of that quality (civil servants), then we must aim for that kind of wage.”
- DPM Lee, on how good employees are worth their salaries
Not sure whether the DPM was speaking to his constituents on Mars, to which planet he obviously and regularly commutes and where consistency of approach is presumably not required, or whether he was speaking to the Singapore population at large, unaware of the irony of his words.