Career prospects and wages in the cleaning sector are set to get a spruce up, with the Labour Movement’s Building and Facilities Management (BFM) Cluster garnering tripartite support towards this task.
The Tripartite Cluster of Cleaners (TCC), together with the seven unions under the BFM cluster, unveiled its Progressive Wage Model (PWM) today, aimed at the cleaning industry which employs some 46,000 local workers.
The initial target is to help 10,000 cleaners in three sub-groups of the cleaning industry.
The TCC, comprising representatives from the government, union and employer groups, recommends $1,000 as the entry-level basic wage for cleaning jobs in offices and commercial buildings as well as the F&B establishment sector, and $1,200 in the conservancy sector.
Based on BFM Cluster’s current records of unionised companies’ gross salaries, the median wage of cleaners for these positions is between $675 and $950.
In addition to the entry-level wage point, additional wage points will provide a pathway for cleaners to progress to higher wages as they become better skilled, more productive or take on higher responsibilities.
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