[SINGAPORE] A new task force will be formed to study how to raise the wages of low-income workers and push productivity growth.
In a Facebook post on Sunday , secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress Ng Chee Meng said the Tripartite Workgroup on Lower Wage Workers will study how to expand the progressive wage model and partner companies to raise productivity to"foster a win-win for employers and workers". He added that this had been the result of a meeting with Manpower Minister Josephine Teo and the president of Singapore National Employers Federation Robert Yao earlier on Sunday.
Mr Ng said the idea of the progressive wage model had first been mooted by NTUC in 2012 and implemented in sectors with large numbers of low-wage workers."Today, close to 80,000 workers in the cleaning, landscape and security sectors have seen their incomes increase based on built-in yearly wage increase as part of the ," said Mr Ng.
He added that wages have also been further raised through other initiatives, such as the Workfare Income Supplement.