Payment of wages

(1) In all contracts of service the wages of the employee shall be made payable in legal tender and not otherwise and if in any such contract the whole or any part of such wages is made payable in any other manner such contract shall be illegal, null (2) Wages shall be paid when due and, unless impossible, on work days and at or near the place of employment or an authorised agent’s office. (3) Except where otherwise expressly permitted by this Act, the entire amount of the wages earned by, or payable to, any employee in terms of any contract of service shall be paid– (a) to him in legal tender; or (b) with his consent or at his request and subject to such limitations and conditions as may be prescribed– (i) into a bank account maintained by him; or (ii) to him by cheque, postal order or money order expressed in legal tender, and every payment of, or on account of, any such wages made in any other form shall be illegal, null and void. (4) Every employee shall be entitled to recover in a court so much of his wages exclusive of sums lawfully deducted in accordance with this Act as shall not actually have been paid to him in accordance with sub-section (3). (5) Any employer who enters into any contract or pays any wages contrary to sub-sections (1) and (3), commits an offence. 72