Job satisfaction remains high for security officers despite an increase in abuse and the challenges they face amid the pandemic. Wages also remain higher than the recommended level in the PWM.
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Through the Progressive Wage Model, Mdm Bibi is able to carve a meaningful career as a cleaner rising form being a general cleaner to a multi-skilled cleaner cum machine operator, and earning higher wages as well. The PWM will see even higher basic wage from 1 July 2020 through to July 2022, with a 3% year-on-year increase.
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Move aside the national minimum wage. The Labour Movement has made huge progress in increasing the productivity of the workforce and helping improve the welfare of low-wage workers through various schemes, like the Job Redesign programme targeted at older workers so smarter jobs can be catered for them.
The tripartite efforts have resulted in many opportunities for workers to up-skill and access training workshops to broaden their skill sets which can help in their job search and overall social mobility.
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When Mr Chan left the transport sector for the landscape sector, he started from scratch and learn from the ground. 3 years later, he is a Team Leader managing 11 workers daily.
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A minimum wage puts a damper on motivation, does not reward skill-upgrading and flatten wages for the most vulnerable workers.
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The risk of a national minimum wage being politicised is real. It has happened elsewhere in the world and it is happening here now. SDP has jumped in to propose a higher minimum wage.
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The simple and straight answer is: you can't. Not even if you earn the minimum of $1300 if you have a family to look after.
$1300 is too low to be of much help in lifting a low-income family.
This is why the Workers' Party's call for a national minimum wage of $1300 is more a political cry than a genuine attempt to uplift workers. It is set at a level that avoids a big reaction from the business community while at the same time, portrays the WP as a party that cares.
The simple and straight answer is: you can't. Not even if you earn the minimum of $1300 if you have a family to look after.
$1300 is too low to be of much help in lifting a low-income family.
This is why the Workers' Party's call for a national minimum wage of $1300 is more a political cry than a genuine attempt to uplift workers. It is set at a level that avoids a big reaction from the business community while at the same time, portrays the WP as a party that cares.
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98.3% are already earning more than $1300 a month. PWM will be extended to all sectors.
With the PWM for the Lift and Escalator ready to phase in and the proposal for the Waste Management sector submitted, the number earning less than $1300 will be further reduced.
With sectorial benchmarks for sectors currently without a PWM, what WP wants to achieve with MW is already achieved through PWM, WIS and these other policy measures.
98.3% are already earning more than $1300 a month. PWM will be extended to all sectors. With the PWM for the Lift and Escalator ready to phase in and the proposal for the Waste Mangement sector submitted, the number earning less than $1300 will be further reduced. With sectoral benchmarks for sectors currently without a PWM, what WP wants to achieve with MW is already achieved through PWM, WIS and these other policy measures.
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If minimum wage is the magic solution, the PAP Government would have implemented it long ago to make themselves very popular.
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