National Minimum Wage National Standard

L.N. 418 of 2003

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

National Minimum Wage National Standard

Order, 2003

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 4 of the Employment

and Industrial Relations Act, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister

for Social Policy, on the recommendation of the Employment Relations

Board, has made the following order>–

The title of this order is the National Minimum Wage National

Standard Order, 2003, and it shall come into effect on the 1st January,

2004.

The National Minimum Wage per week related to a normal

working week shall be as follows>–

Age 18 years and over ……………………………Lm53.88c

Age 17 years ………………………………………Lm50.97c

Under 17 years ……………………………………Lm49.75c

The National Minimum Wage of part-time employees shall

be pro rata at an hourly rate not below the National Standard Minimum

Wage applicable, as determined in accordance with the preceding article

and divided by forty.

Where any Wages Council Wage Regulation Order applies to

any employee, the wages payable to such employees shall not be less

than those laid down by such Wages Council Wage Regulation Order,

adjusted for cost of living by successive increases of wages declared to

be generally applicable to all whole-time employees in terms of article

8 of the Employment and Industrial Relations Act, or by any successive

wage increases for cost of living laid down by any national standard

order.

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