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Minimum wage

Wages Councils (Wages Regulation) (Consolidation) Order, para. 2 · Revised Edition 2020

The minimum wage for unskilled workers shall be as specified in the Schedule hereto. __________ 6 Wages Council SCHEDULE Citrus Industry 1.-(1) The minimum wage rates for unskilled workers employed in the citrus industry, for an eight-hour day, in cleaning, picking, transporting, processing and handling citrus shall beS.I. 55 of 2012. (a) for men .................................. $3.30 per day S.I. 55 of 2012. (b) for women ............................. $3.30 per day. (2) The minimum rates for piece work by unskilled workers employed in the citrus industry in cleaning, picking, transporting and handling citrus shall be adjusted to be in keeping with the rates set out in subparagraph (1) of this paragraph. 2. Such workers in the citrus industry who shall have been employed for at least the two working days immediately preceding a public holiday and were employed or were present and available for employment on the next working day after the said public holiday shall be paid a day’s wages for the said public holiday. S.I. 10 of 1966. 3. For the purposes of paragraph 2 a day’s wages shall not be less than the minimum basic wage in the citrus industry which in any event shall not be less than eight times the hourly wage. 4. All work done on public holidays other than Christmas Day, Good Friday or Easter Monday shall be paid for at half as much again as ordinary rates. 5. All work done on Christmas Day, Good Friday and Easter Monday shall be paid for at double rates. Wages Council 7 Domestics 6. For the purpose of this Order, unless the context otherwise requires - Interpretation. “domestic helper” means any person, other than a member of the occupier’s family, employed in or in connection with domestic services of any kind. S.I. 106 of 2002. 7. The minimum basic wages rates for domestic helpers, employed fulltime or part-time, shall be three dollars and thirty cents ($3.30) per hour. Minimum wage rate for domestic helpers. S.I. 106 of 2002. S.I. 55 of 2012. Shop Assistants 8. “Shop assistant” means any person, other than a member of the occupier’s family, employed in or about a shop, in connection with the service of customers, or the receipt of orders or moneys or the receipt or dispatch of goods, and includes apprentices, learners and clerical workers employed in connection with the service of customers. Interpretation. S.I. 106 of 2002. 9.-(1) The minimum basic wage rates for shop assistants, employed full-time or part-time (excluding bona fide students who may be employed outside of school hours or during school vacation in premises covered by the Shops Act), shall be three dollars and thirty cents ($3.30) per hour. Minimum wage rate for shop assistants. S.I. 106 of 2002. CAP. 287. S.I. 55 of 2012. (2) The minimum basic wage rate for bona fide students who may be employed outside of school hours or during school vacation in premises covered by the Shops Act shall be three dollars ($3.00) per hour. CAP. 287. S.I. 79 of 2010. __________
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