Rise in pay for security guards put off

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A move by NTUC to raise security guards' pay has stalled. The Security Association of Singapore believes this will increase overheads.

This means that a security guard's monthly basic salary of $800 will continue to be $200 less than what a cleaner gets.

"We are not like landscaping or cleaning, which are based on a straightforward eight hours of work per day without overtime," Mr T. Mogan, president of the Security Association of Singapore, which represents about 130 firms, was quoted as saying.

The impasse could hobble the labour movement's progressive wage model, which was introduced in June last year to increase workers' salaries through better skills and higher productivity.

So far, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has set minimum pay benchmarks in sectors such as cleaning, transport and hotel.