Salaries

Salary and wrongful dismissal claims in S’pore rose last year to their highest levels since 2019

A total of 13,083 employment claims and appeals were lodged in 2025, equivalent to about 3.44 claims per 1,000 employees.

Pest management workers to benefit from pay rise under Progressive Wage Model

The Tripartite Cluster for Pest Management will consult and engage industry stakeholders in the coming months to ensure that the Progressive Wage Model is sustainable and tailored to the specific conditions of the sector.

Britain may require companies to publish salaries in equal pay drive

Workers talk outside Canary Wharf underground station in London, on June 9.

Commentary

It took 400 unpaid workers before the alarm was sounded in Singapore

Over 100 migrant workers from KPA Engineering and SK Industries were seen entering the Ministry of Manpower in Bendemeer Road in small groups on June 22, to report unpaid wages.

How Singapore’s population has evolved in 5 years

Think you’ve been ‘lowballed’? This NUS grad built a tool that lets you compare salary offers

Luqman Naqib built Lowball, a website designed to help job seekers determine whether they are being “lowballed”.

Philippines sets record pay hike for Manila workers on inflation

A trade union said the hike is inadequate in the face of inflation faced by the Philippines.

About 1 in 7 S’pore families has income of at least $30k a month; share almost doubled in 5 years

In 2025, 13.4 per cent of resident households have a monthly market income of $30,000 or more, up from 7.4 per cent in 2020.

Unpaid wages: Director behind firms linked to case back in S’pore, assisting in MOM probe

Minister of State for Manpower Dinesh Vasu Dash (right) with migrant workers from KPA Engineering, SK Industries and VVR Plant Engineering at Kranji Recreation Centre on June 28.

Forum: Consider early intervention to help foreign workers before delayed salaries accrue

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