The hike in the foreign worker levy will mean higher operating costs for nursing homes,
which have a high proportion of non-local staff – with one home saying that
if costs go up too high, it may have to raise fees.
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Should be expected, least by our esteemed ministers. Remember when GST went up from 5% to 7%, businesses took the opportunity to jack up their charges, some disproportionally. Simple passing the cost to the employees or the customers. U means our FM didn’t know this trick, meh? What, we paying him peanuts, is it?