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A history of Singapore’s daily-rated workers and the unions that fought for them
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Fourteen unions collectively known as the Federation of Daily Rated Employees' Unions were formed in 1947 to safeguard the interests of daily-rated workers.
PHOTO: NTUC
SINGAPORE – Daily-rated workers in the public service were a group of people doing mostly blue-collar work cleaning, maintaining and running Singapore’s public services like its parks and utilities.
The scheme, which Singapore inherited from the colonial British government, lasted until last year, when the last daily-rated workers were converted to monthly schemes, like most other public sector employees.
