The five key positions that outline the Workers' Party policy proposals to improve the lives of Singaporeans.
The five sections below outline our policy proposals to improve the lives of Singaporeans.
Operating costs for businesses, alternatives to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to generate tax revenue, and also proposals to improve affordability of utilities, housing and care. We call for additional support for workers facing job insecurity, including mandating retrenchment benefits and a redundancy insurance scheme.
Singaporean workers should form the core of our economy even as we welcome suitably qualified foreigners to work alongside us. We need clear measurement metrics to promote reemployment and reskilling of local workers, and to keep these affordable. Our proposals look to enhance competitiveness for future industries, and our Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Citizens’ retirement adequacy should also be further strengthened by reforming the Central Provident Fund (CPF).
Within our society to provide everyone the best chance to flourish. Ideas include ensuring social outcomes are properly measured, alleviating poverty, enhancing support for parents and caregivers, addressing the needs of an ageing population, and improving access to housing and our built environment.
Enhanced by having institutional safeguards that are empowered to check and balance those in power with full independence. To further our democratic institutions, electoral reform has to happen by way of lowering the voting age to 18 and reverting to only single member constituencies.
Strengthening external and internal resilience. In addition to defence policies such as greater countermeasures against grey zone tactics, increasing full-time national serviceman’s pay and better integration of our digital defences, we also need to enhance our internal supply chain resilience through building domestic manufacturing capacity and food supply.