Employer Compliance Rates for Local Qualifying Salary and Progressive Wage Requirements

Mr Patrick Tay Teck Guan asked the Minister for Manpower in the past year, what are the compliance rates among employers for the (i) Local Qualifying Salary requirement to all local employees not covered under Progressive Wages (ii) Occupational Progressive Wages for administrators and drivers and (iii) Sectoral Progressive Wage Model.

Dr Tan See Leng: About eight in 10 eligible employees received salaries which met the Progressive Wage Model (PWM) and Occupational Progressive Wages' requirements. Among workers not covered by PWM, nine in 10 are paid at least the Local Qualifying Salary.