Govt paid Mercer S$860k for work with salary review committe
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SINGAPORE: The government paid a total of S$860,000 to human resource company Mercer (Singapore) Pte Ltd for its work with the Ministerial Salaries Review Committee. Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean revealed this in a written answer to Parliament. This was in response to a question from Workers' Party MP Pritam Singh. Mr Teo added that the chairman and members of the Ministerial Salaries Review Committee were all volunteers and they were not paid an honorarium or any other fees. At the start of the review in 2011, the chairman of the committee, Mr Gerard Ee, had mentioned that the committee had a small secretariat of civil servants. They were resource persons and helped provide logistical and administrative support. These civil servants supported the committee on a part-time basis and continued with their primary roles and duties. The committee engaged Mercer to support the committee's work with their technical expertise on human resource and remuneration issues. The committee had selected Mercer after assessing bid proposals submitted by three companies. Mr Teo said no other additional cost was incurred by the government in relation to the appointment of the Ministerial Salaries Review Committee. -CNA/ac
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How come so expensive to pull out data from their computer ?
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Life is surreal.
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why so expensive. SGD 860,000 ??? care to print out the reciept so i can check what kind of handling service?
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just take a pay cut and get it over with. why waste 800k of taxpayers' money on a salary review.