Singapore promotes Progressive Wage Model for cleaners
10 January 2014
Singapore plans to make the Progressive Wage Model (PWM) mandatory in the cleaning sector, providing higher entry-level wages and promoting progression.
Fri, 10 Jan 2014Singapore plans to make the Progressive Wage Model (PWM) mandatory in the cleaning sector, providing higher entry-level wages and promoting progression.
“Cheap sourcing practices have held down wages. They have also led to high attrition and churning of employees, making skills acquisition difficult,” Tharman Shanmugaratnam, deputy prime minister & minister for finance, told delegates at a sourcing symposium.
The PWM recommendations will provide better entry-level wages and a pathway to higher pay based on work experience, skills upgrading, responsibilities and productivity improvements. This pathway, or ‘wage-skill ladder’, is a defining feature of the PWM.
At the moment the PWM is not mandatory outside the public sector, but the government plans to introduce a bill in the Environmental Public Health Act that will require all cleaning businesses to have a licence to operate, ensuring the use of PWM.
“Cheap sourcing practices have held down wages. They have also led to high attrition and churning of employees, making skills acquisition difficult,” Tharman Shanmugaratnam, deputy prime minister & minister for finance, told delegates at a sourcing symposium.
The PWM recommendations will provide better entry-level wages and a pathway to higher pay based on work experience, skills upgrading, responsibilities and productivity improvements. This pathway, or ‘wage-skill ladder’, is a defining feature of the PWM.
At the moment the PWM is not mandatory outside the public sector, but the government plans to introduce a bill in the Environmental Public Health Act that will require all cleaning businesses to have a licence to operate, ensuring the use of PWM.
