Progressive Wage Model Requirement for Government Unarmed Security Contracts

Mr Zainal Sapari asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance whether the Government will take the lead to ensure that existing and future unarmed security contracts entered into by Ministries and statutory boards will adopt the Progressive Wage Model (PWM) recommended by the Security Tripartite Cluster before PWM becomes a licensing condition on 1 September 2016.

Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam: The Government has accepted the Security Tripartite Cluster’s recommendations for the Progressive Wage Model (PWM) to be introduced to the security industry, and fully supports implementing the PWM in public sector security contracts, even before PWM becomes a licensing condition on 1 September 2016.

We have started discussions with our Tripartite partners on ways to identify early adopters of PWM in the security sector, and to give them due recognition when awarding contracts.