Regulation (Amendment) Order, 1981

L.N. 59 of 1981

CONDITIONS OF

EMPLOYMENT (REGULATION)

ACT, 1952

(ACT NO. XI OF 1952)

Wħolesale and Retail Trades Wages Council Wage

Regulation (Amendment) Order, 1981

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

of Employment (Regulation) Act, 1)52, the Minister of Labour, Welfare

and Culture having receive d p rop o sals from the Wholesale and Retail

Trades \<Vages Council concerning the c on d i t i o ns of employment of the

employees in relation to whom the s a i d Wages Council operates, has

made the f o llow i ng o rde r

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(l) This order may be cited as the Wholesa1e and Retail

Trades Wages Council Wage Regulation (Amendment) Order, 1981,

and sha11 be read and construed as one with the Wholesale and Retail

Trades Wages Council Wage Regulation Order, 1975, hereinafter

referred to as "the principal order",

(2) Th is order sha11 come into force on the 29th June, 1981,

with t h e exception of article :3 vvhich s h a H have effect as from the 1st

day of January, 1981.

For the definition of "whole-time employee" in paragraph l

of the Schedule to the principal order there shaH be substituted the

following

to the

principal order.

" "whole-time employee" means an employee who works for

morr.:: than twenty ho ur s in any one week, spread over a period of

not less than four days;".

For sub-pan�graphs (a). (b) 2nd (c) of paragraph 3 of the Sche­

Amends

paragraph 3

dule to the princip;l1 o r d e r there shaH be substituted the following

of the Schedule

"(a)

Whole-time employees in restaurants, other than watch­

to the

men, of the :::ge s p e c ifi e d in column l of the table hereunder sha11

principal order.

be entit1ed to the appropriate rate of remuneration set out in

co1umn 2 thereof

A1inimum Remuneration

Whole-time employees in Restaurants

Column 1

Column 2

At age 16 years

f23.l3

At age 17 years

f24.24

At age 18 yeaJ;s or over

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Provided that the employer shaH have the right to deduct

from the rate shown in c01umn 2 above lOc for every day that he,

in agreement with the empioyee, provides one main meal to the

employee;

employecs,

(b) Whole-time

other than

watchmen,

or

employees in restaurants, to whom this Schedule

applies, of the

age specified in Column 1 of the table hereunder, shaH be entit1ed

to the appropriate rate of remuneration set out in Column 2

thereof

Minimum Remuneration

Whole-time employees (other thall watchmen) in establishments

other than restaurants

Column 1

Column 2

At age 16 years

f23.13

At age 17 years

f24.24

At age 18 years or over

f27.38.

Watchmen shaH be paid as follows

(c)

those whose duti es ar e ma in l y performed

(i)

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indoors

(ii) those whose duties are m ai n l y perf ormed

;[28.38.".

outdoors

For paragraph 10 of the S ch ed u l e to the principal order there

shaH be s u b st it u t ed the following

The minimum remuneration payable to part-time

"10.

(l)

employees shaH be as follows

Monday to Saturday - fl .25,0 per hour

;[2.00,0 per hour.

Sundays and Customary Holidays

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(2)

When the Govemment grants to all its whole-time

employees a general in c re as e in wages and such increase is dec­

lared by the Minister responsible for labour by notice in the

Gazette to be of g en eral appli ca ti o n to all whole·time employees,

the above rates shaH be proportionately increased by dividing the

weekly rate applicable to whole-time employees of the sa me

category b y sixty in the case of watchmen and by forty-four in the

case of other employees.

(3) For the purposes

of

this

paragraph

pa r t t i me

"

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employee" means an employee

(a) who is not employed for more than twenty hours in

any week;

(b)

whose hours of work i n any day, are contained in

not more than four consecutive hours in a period of not more

than half a day; and

who is employed at fixed hours.".

(c)

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