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Why would the minimum wage be politicised and not the Progressive Wage Model which also has a minimum wage as its first rung?

Why would the minimum wage be politicised and not the Progressive Wage Model which also has a minimum wage as its first rung?

Because the minimum wage is arbitrarily set by a political party.

The Progressive Wage Model on the other hand is negotiated through a tedious process involving consultations, walking the ground to understand the needs, negotiations with unions and industry representatives before the minimum wage is set at a level agreed upon by all, taking into considerations all needs and circumstances.

Dear Pritam Singh, your cleaners are among the 32,000 earning less than $1300 a month

It's taken too long to roll out the Progressive Wage Model. 32,000 is not a small number. It's simply not acceptable that any Singaporean earn less than $1300 a month.

Thus have WP Chief Pritam Singh argued in Parliament.

"And if we can do something about it in double quick time, let's do it," said Pritam Singh.

Well, among the 32,000 earning less than $1300 are the cleaners from Mr Pritam's Town Council.

There is something that WP can do in double quick time and reduce the number of workers earning less than $1300.

And that is, pay their cleaners according to the PWM. $1442 a month.

Pritam Singh complained that the Progressive Wage Model had taken too long to be rolled out. Yet, his cleaners are not even paid according the the PWM already rolled out for the cleaning sector.

Workers' Party pays their town council cleaners less than $1300

In a video shared by Sure Boh Singapore, a cleaner employed by AHTC said that he is paid $1200 a month before CPF deduction.

This is lower that WP's proposed $1300 min take-home wage.

It is also lower than the minimum wage of $1442 for town council cleaners under the Progressive Wage Model. Underpaid!

Given how WP had argued about a moral imperative to pay workers a minimum take-home pay of $1300, and how it is unacceptable and not justifiable to pay workers any less than $1300, Workers' Party should 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤.

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬' 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐨.

A minimum take-home pay of $1300 means a gross pay of $1625 (for a worker 55 and younger) or $1900 inclusive of employer's CPF contribution.

You don't need to wait for a min wage law.

Ref for video mentioned:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=345446113191368

The future of jobs and Jamus Lim

The Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum is out. The pace of technology adoption will remain unabated. It will transform tasks, jobs and skills by 2025.

By 2025, work will be divided equally between humans and machines. This shift in the division of labour means 85 million jobs displaced.

97 million new roles may emerge that are more adapted to the new division of labour between humans, machines and algorithms.

And yes, that means training for new skills.

Don't believe it when politicians come along and promise you the easy way.

Like Jamus Lim telling you that good jobs are jobs that you want, jobs that pay well, jobs that don't require you train for new skills beyond school. These are election rhetoric. Empty words.

During the election, Jamus Lim said in a political broadcast:

"I wish to express how important it is that our government doesn’t just promise us jobs, but good jobs. .. Too many of the promised jobs fail to meet up to our expectations,... because they call for us to have skills that the educational system did not provide to us."

With the fast pace of technological change, you either skill-up or be replaced. This is especially so for low wage workers where machines and robots can take over easily.

The answer is not a minimum wage. The answer is how you can stay employed so that you will earn a wage.

When a politician calls for a minimum wage for you while making light of skill-training, you know he does not make sense.

Where are the activists who egged Amos on?

It's not often that we are privileged to see events played out in a short time that allow us to tell these activists how wrong they were.

There was no political persecution or oppression. There was just a wayward boy who needed to be taken in hand and given parental guidance.

But these activists were egging him on when he was still a teenager, holding him up as their hero standing up to an oppressive government, who eventually had to flee from an oppressive country that has no room for him. They urged him on a path of destruction.

He was a political opportunity for them to paint a villain government when Amos was just a boy who ran foul of the law.

Pritam Singh's minimum wage call shows he is out of touch with reality

The Leader of the Opposition is out of touch with reality calling for a universal minimum wage at this time of recession when the priority is to save jobs, not calling for a universal minimum wage to lift wages.

Throwing in words like 'moral imperative' and 'national solidarity' do not make the call wise at this time or the timing right.

Even my mother with her folksy wisdom knows that a pay cut may be necessary for her to keep her job.

Employers have been given the green light by the National Wages Council to implement temporary wage cut if it can save jobs.