Wage Regulation (Amendment) Order, 1981

L.N. 18 of 1981

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (REGULATION) ACT, 1952

(ACT NO. XI OF 1952)

Paper, Plastics, Cħemicals and Petroleum Wages Council

Wage Regulation (Amendment) Order, 1981

IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 8 of the Conditions

of Employment (Regulation) Act, 1952, the Minister of Labour,

We1f,tre and Culture having received proposals from the Paper Plastics

Chemicals and Petroleum Wages Council concerning the conditions of

employment of the employees in relation to whom the said Wages

Council operates, has made the fo11owing order:-

(l) This order rnay be cited as the Paper, Plastics, Chemicals

and Petroleum Wages Council Wage Regulation (Amendment) Order,

1981, and shaH be read and construed as one with the Paper, Plastics,

Chemicals and Petroleum Wages Council Wage Regulation Order,

1973, hereinafter referred to as "the principal order".

(2) This order shaH come into force on the 2nd March,

1981 with the exception of paragraph 2 which sha11 have effect as from

the 1st day of January, 1981.

For paragraph 3 of the Schedule to the principal order there

sha11 be substituted the following

"3. (l) Whole-time ski1led employees, sha11 not be paid in

any week less than the fo11owing wages

(a) during the first year of employment

in the trade

f27.88

(b) during the second and subsequent

years of employment in the trade

f28.63.

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(2) Whole-time employees, other than skilled employees

and watchmen, sha11 not be paid in any week less than the follow­

ing wages

At age 18 years or over .

f26.88

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f23.97

At age 17 years

At age 16 years

f22.74.

Watchmen sha11 not be paid less than f28.63 in any

(3)

week.".

For paragraph 8 of the Schedule to the principal order there

sha11 be substituted the following

"8. ( l ) Whole-time employees other than watchmen sha11

be paid at the rates of time-and-a-half for overtime work performed

on week days and at double time for work performed on Sundays.

The rate of double time shaH be paid for work dOl1e on customary

holidays in addition to the normal day's pay.

(2) Watchmen sha11 be entitled to overtime at the ra te

of time-and-a-half for all time worked in excess of 60 hours over

a period of 6 days and a double time for work performed on the

seventh day and on customary holidays.".

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