Some business leaders want a minimum wage to go with progressive wage model

Singapore

SOME business leaders have expressed support for a minimum wage component to complement the progressive wage model (PWM) as a means to speed up as well as broaden efforts to raise the income of low wage workers.

Dileep Nair, an independent director of diversified business group Thakral Corporation, said that the progressive wage model does set a minimum wage - but only in the sectors of security, landscape and cleaning since its introduction in 2012.