Landscape companies and employers of in-house landscape maintenance employees must meet the Progressive Wage Model wage and training requirements for landscape maintenance employees who are Singapore citizens or permanent residents.
What is it
The Progressive Wage Model (PWM) for landscape maintenance employees was developed by the Tripartite Cluster for Landscape Industry (TCL). It features:
- Training requirements that tap on the Skills Framework for Landscape. This ensures that workers have the skills they need to carry out their jobs.
- Progressive wages set at each level. This ensures that workers are paid wages that correspond to their skills and productivity.
The PWM is a registration condition for NParks' Landscape Company Register (LCR).
Who it covers
The PWM requirements are mandatory. They cover all Singapore citizens and permanent residents who are employed in outsourced landscape maintenance jobs by landscape companies on the LCR, or in-house landscape maintenance employees in firms that hire foreign workers.
Employers are encouraged to adopt the PWM's principles for their foreign landscape maintenance employees by upgrading their skills and implementing productivity-based wage progression pathways.
The job roles for PWM landscape maintenance employees are as follows:
- Deployment of workforce
- Supervision of workforce
- Ensure work schedules are completed on time
- Inspection of site
- Ensure safety regulations are implemented and complied with
- Maintenance duties
- Assist in deployment of workforce
- Assist in manpower supervision
- Reporting and updating completed work
- Assist in ensuring safety regulations are complied with
- 5 basic general duties:
- Watering
- Weeding
- Basic pruning
- Soil aeration
- Clearing of horticultural waste
- Fertiliser and pesticide treatment
- Operate motorised equipment and machinery
- Observe safety regulations
- 5 basic general duties:
- Watering
- Weeding
- Basic pruning
- Soil aeration
- Clearing of horticultural waste
- Observe safety regulations
Wage requirements
| Job level |
Monthly basic wage requirements for full-time landscape workers (35-44 hours per week)
|
| 1 Jul 2023 – 30 Jun 2024 |
1 Jul 2024 – 30 Jun 2025 |
1 Jul 2025 – 30 Jun 2026 |
1 Jul 2026 – 30 Jun 2027 |
1 Jul 2027 – 30 Jun 2028 |
1 Jul 2028 – 30 Jun 2029 |
|
Landscape
supervisor /
Senior
Landscape
Specialist
|
≥ $2,600 |
≥ $2,750 |
≥ $2,900 |
≥ $3,060 |
≥ $3,220 |
≥ $3,380 |
|
Assistant
landscape
supervisor /
Landscape
Specialist
|
≥ $2,215 |
≥ $2,380 |
≥ $2,545 |
≥ $2,685 |
≥ $2,825 |
≥ $2,965 |
|
Landscape
technician
|
≥ $2,010 |
≥ $2,170 |
≥ $2,330 |
≥ $2,490 |
≥ $2,650 |
≥ $2,810 |
|
Landscape
worker
|
≥ $1,750 |
≥ $1,850 |
≥ $1,950 |
≥ $2,095 |
≥ $2,240 |
≥ $2,385 |
A
PWM Bonus of at least 2 weeks of basic monthly wages will be payable to eligible outsourced and in-house landscape maintenance employees in a given year.
Training requirements
Employers must ensure that their Singapore citizen and permanent resident landscape maintenance employees meet the PWM training requirements.
- Outsourced landscape workers: The required number of modules from the approved list:
- Landscape Supervisor: Assistant Landscape Supervisor + 3 modules
- Assistant Landscape Supervisor: Landscape Technician + 3 modules
- Landscape Technician: Landscape Worker + 3 modules
- Landscape Worker: 3 modules
- In-house landscape workers: Any 1 WSQ course or 1 in-house training programme
The in-house training programme must be guided by training objectives, training modality, key training tasks and training duration to meet the training requirements. When required, employers are expected to show supporting documentation on their in-house training programme and records of workers who attended the trainings.
On-the-job training can be counted towards the in-house training programme if it fulfils these requirements.
As an employer, you will benefit from your landscape maintenance employees' increased productivity and ability to provide higher quality landscape maintenance services.
Find out how you can get assistance for training costs.
For more detail on the training requirements and the list of approved modules, please see Annex A of the Addendum to the TCL Report.
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