Undoubtedly, working in retail is tough. Retail workers in Singapore and around the world face issues like having to work long hours on their feet, dealing with unreasonable customers, low income, sparse benefits and limited career progression. Source: Giphy But, things are about to improve slightly for retail workers. Yesterday (15 Aug 2022), the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) announced that they have accepted the Tripartite Cluster for Retail (TCR)’s recommendations on their new Progressive Wage Model (PWM) for the retail sector. MOM stated that ‘the TCR has recommended a three-year schedule of sustained PWM wage increases from 2022 to 2024, which will take effect from 1 September 2022. This includes additional PWM wage requirements for overtime hours worked in a month. The ministry added that the ‘TCR’s recommendations will benefit about 46,000 resident full-time and part-time retail assistants, cashiers and supervisors, with those at the entry-level seeing their monthly wages move up by 18 per cent over the three-year period.’...