SINGAPORE: Cleaners in some sectors can expect to take home a bigger pay packet and enjoy higher starting basic salaries of between S$1,000 and S$1,200, as part of efforts to raise productivity through the Progressive Wage Model (PWM).
The Tripartite Cluster for Cleaners (TCC) is pushing for the PWM to attract more cleaners to help ease the shortage of workers in the sector.
These changes, TCC said, should apply to local cleaners in three sub-sectors -- office and commercial buildings, food and beverage establishments, and conservancies.
For a start, it wants to help about 10,000 cleaners in these sub-sectors earn a higher entry-level basic wage of between S$1,000 and S$1,200.
There are about 46,000 local cleaners in these three sub-sectors.
They make up more than half of the near 70,000 local and foreign cleaners in the industry here.
Currently, cleaners in these positions earn between S$675 and S$950.
The cluster is also pushing for a 'wage ladder' -- to give more "wage points" to cleaners who pick up new and better skills, or take on higher responsibilities.
The recommendations are part of the drive for a PWM, where workers gradually earn more through skills upgrading and structured career advancement.
They also aim to help raise productivity through technology and the re-designing of processes.
The TCC, which has representatives from the Ministry of Manpower and National Environment Agency, as well as unions and service providers, considered several factors.
These include what the cleaners' wages would have been if they had kept pace with productivity growth, the nature and working conditions in various cleaning jobs, as well as inputs from those in the cleaning industry....
The Tripartite Cluster for Cleaners (TCC) is pushing for the PWM to attract more cleaners to help ease the shortage of workers in the sector.
These changes, TCC said, should apply to local cleaners in three sub-sectors -- office and commercial buildings, food and beverage establishments, and conservancies.
For a start, it wants to help about 10,000 cleaners in these sub-sectors earn a higher entry-level basic wage of between S$1,000 and S$1,200.
There are about 46,000 local cleaners in these three sub-sectors.
They make up more than half of the near 70,000 local and foreign cleaners in the industry here.
Currently, cleaners in these positions earn between S$675 and S$950.
The cluster is also pushing for a 'wage ladder' -- to give more "wage points" to cleaners who pick up new and better skills, or take on higher responsibilities.
The recommendations are part of the drive for a PWM, where workers gradually earn more through skills upgrading and structured career advancement.
They also aim to help raise productivity through technology and the re-designing of processes.
The TCC, which has representatives from the Ministry of Manpower and National Environment Agency, as well as unions and service providers, considered several factors.
These include what the cleaners' wages would have been if they had kept pace with productivity growth, the nature and working conditions in various cleaning jobs, as well as inputs from those in the cleaning industry....
