Singapore News - A security agency is being dealt with by the Union of Security Employees (USE) for attempting to reset the wages of some 300 officers through forced demotions. The agency, which hires over 1,000 officers, carried out the demotions as it no longer had the contracts to. Read more at www.tnp.sg
Such employers must have adopted the progressive wage model, currently underway for five sectors, i.e. cleaning, security, landscape, lift and escalator, and retail.
Companies hiring foreign national workers are required to comply with the existing Progressive Wage Model (PWM) scheme (in addition to the existing Local Qualifying Salary scheme) by paying at least the relevant Progressive Wage to their local workers in applicable job roles, and at least the Local Qualifying Salary to all other local workers. Local workers benefit from the PWM scheme by getting a…
SINGAPORE – About 45 per cent of Housing Board flat owners who own private property do not live in their flats as they have rented out their entire unit, said National Development Minister Desmond Lee. As at October 2022, about three per cent of HDB flat owners own at least one private residential property, he told Parliament on Monday (Nov.