Domestic Service Wages Council Wage Regulation

L.N. 33 of 1981

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (REGULATION) ACf, 1952

(ACT NO. XI OF 1952)

Domestic Service 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, Welfare

and Culture havi n g received pro p o s a l s from the Domestic Service Wages

Council concerning the conditions of em p loyment of the employees in

relation to whom the said Wages Council operates, has made the fol­

lowing order:-

(l) This o r d er may be cited as the D o mest i c Service Wages

Council Wage Regulation (Amendment) Order ,

and construed as one with the Domestic Service Wages Council Wage

Regulation Order, 1976 hereinafter referred to as "the principal order".

(2)

This order shall come into force on the 30th March, 1981,

with the exception of p aragra p h 2 where it applies only to whole-time

employees which shall have effect from the 1st day of January, 1981.

For pa r a g r a p h 4 of the Schedule to the principal order there

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shall be substituted the following

"Minimum Remuneration

Minflok il-paragrafu 4 ta' l-Iskeda li tinsab ma'

l-ordni prin.

ċipali għandu jidħol dan li ġej

" L-Inqas Rimunerazzjoni

(a) The minimum remuneration of maids and other

female workers who are not refe rr e d to in sub paragraph (b)

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of this paragraph shall be as follows

Whole-Timers

Female workers 1ll Group

EI19 1

. 4,0

Female workers in Gro u p 2

fl17.14,0 per month

Female workers 1ll Group 3

f 27.48 0

,

Female workers in Group 4

f 26.88,0

Part-Timers

Female workers in Group

f 4.48 0

,

Female workers in Group 6

59c per hour

Provided that for employment exceeding four hours in

any one day payment s h al l in 110 cas e be less than the equiva­

lent of a day's work

Provided further that any pa r t - t ime worker who qualifies

as a whole time employee in accordance with paragraph 1 of

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this Schedule shall be ent i t l ed to the flll1 weekly wage applic­

able under this suh-paragraph notwithstanding that she works

for less than six days .

(b) The minimum remuneration of any female worker

being a housekeeper,

nurse-maid sha 11 be as follows;

Whole-Timers

Female workers in Group 1

f123.50,0 per month

Female workers in Group 2

f121.50,0 per month

Female workers in Group 3

f, 28.48,0 per week

Female workers in Group 4

f, 27.88,0 per week

Part-Timers

Female workers in Group 5

...

f,

4.65,0 per day

Female workers in Group 6

61 c per hour

Provided that for employment exceeding four hours in

any one day payment shall in no case be less than the equiva­

lent of a day's work

Provided further that any part-time worker who quaiifies

as a whole-time employee in accordance with paragraph 1 of

this Schedule shall be entitled to the full weekly wage applic­

able under this sub-paragraph notwithstanding that she works

for 1ess than six days.

(c) The minimum remuneration of male workers shall

be as follows

Whole-Timers

Male workers in Group 1

f125.99,0 per month

Male workers in Group 2

f123.99,0 per month

Male workers in Group 3

f 29.13,0 per week

f, 28.38,0 per week

Male workers in Group 4

Part-Timers

Male workers in Group 5

f,

4.73,0 per day

Male workers in Group 6

64c per hour

Provided that for employment exceeding four hours in

any one day payment shall in no case be less than the equiva­

lent of a day's work

Provided further that any part-time worker who qualifies

as a whole-time employee in accordance with paragraph 1 of

this Schedule shall be entitled to the full weekly wage applic­

able under this sub-paragraph notwithstanding that he works

for less than six days.

(d) The wage payable to any female worker shall not be

less than the wage payable to any male worker in the same

class or category.".

3. For sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph 6 of the Schedule to the

paragraph 6'

principal order and for the provisos to the said paragraph there shall

of the

be substituted the following

Schedule to the

principal

"(d) Workers in Groups 1 and 3 on those days when they

order.

do not sleep in their employer's house, workers in Groups 2 and

4 on those days when they do not sleep in their employer's house

and workers in Group 5, shall be entitled to supper when their

hours of work in excess of eight (8) in any day exceed three

Provided that workers in Groups 1 and 2 shall have f1 7.90,0

deducted monthly from their minimum remuneration, workers in

Groups 3 and 4 shall h av e f4.13,0 deducted weekly from their

minimum remuneration, and workers in Group 5 sIwIl have 69c

deducted daily from their rninimum remuneration, as compens2tion

for meals to which they shall be entitled as aforesaid

Provided that workers in Group 6 shall have no deduction

from th c i r minimum remuneration as compensation for meals to

which they may b::: entit1ed as long as t h ey are not entitled to a

day's pay in which case they shall have 69c deducted from their

minimum remuneration

Provided that workers in Groups 1, 2, 3 and 4 shall not be

considcred as having availed themselves of their right to mcals as

aforesaid during periods of customary holidays, l ea ve and sick

leave entitlement, and the re1evant deducticn as compensation for

meals shall not be made from their minimum remuncration; and

Provided further that should w or k er s not avail themse1ves of

thetr right to any meals as aforesaid, they shall not be entitled to

any pecuniary comp::.nsation in substitution thercfor.".

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