Wage Regulation Order , 1996

L.N. 6 01 1996

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (REGULATION) ACT

(CAP 135)

Sextons Ilnd Custodia ns Wages Council

Wage Regulation Order , 1996

IN exercise ofthc powers conferred by section 8 of the Conditions

ofEmploymcnt (Regulation) Act. the MinisterofEducation and Hum an

Resources,having received proposals from the Sextons and C ustooians

Wages Counci l concerning tlte Conditions o f Employment of the

employees in relation to whom the said Wages Council operates, has

made the following order; -

This order may be cited as the Sextons and Custodians Wages

Council Wage Regulati on Order. 1996 and shall come in lo force on the

1st February, 1996.

2 . The provisions set out in the Schedule hereto shall apply 10 all

employees in respect of whom the Sextons and Custodians Wa ges

Council operates.

I. T his Wages Council O rde r operates for Sextons and A~IiIy.

Custodians of churches, museums or buildings open for exhibitions 10

the public.

The word '-Custodian" includes, besides a person wholly employed

for the custody of a ch urch, museum or building, any person pri ncipally,

or mainly engaged in the cleaning, maintenance or security of such

church, museum or building.

In this Schedule, unless the context OIherwise requires -

"customary holidays" means tile days (other than Sundays)

declared for the time being to be public holidays by or under the

National Holidays and othe r Public Holidays Act;

<:.p. 252.

"hours of wort." means the lime on any day during which the

employees an.: allhe disposal of the employer, exclusive of intervals

allowed for meals and rest;

"pan-time employee" means an employee who is not a whole-

time employee;

"time-and-a-half' and "double-lime" mean respectively one

and a half times and double the actual time rales applicable to the

employee;

" wages" means remuneration or earnings payable in money

to an employee by an employer.

" week" means a calendar wee k ;

"weekly day of rest" means a period of twenty· four

consecuti ve hours, commencing at the time at which the employee

would nonnally commence his time of dUlY;

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

more than twenty hours spread over a period of six days in any

one week wi th the same employer.

The hours of work of sextons shall be 520 hours (40 hours x

13 weeks) spread over Ii period of 13 weeks commencing from the first

week of every quarter. provided that the hours of work shall not exceed

60 hours in anyone week, with one day of rest every week .

The hours of work shall be spread over 6 days. so that sextons

shall be entitled to al least one day of rest in every period of seven

consecutive days.

The hours of work of custodians shall be forty (40) hours spread

over a period o f silt (6) days, so that custod ians shall be entitled to one

day of reSt in every period o f seven consecutive da ys.

The minimum weekly wages payable to whole-time employees

shall be as follows:-

Age 18 and over ....... ................................ Lm42.38c per week

Age 17 to 18 years ............ ....................... Lm39.47c per week

Under 17 years ......................................... Lm38.25c per week.

Part-lime employees shall be paid pro-rata at an hourly rate or part

thereof nOI below the National Minimum Wage (as per Legal Notice

186 of 1994 or any other noti ce substituting same) as determined in

accord ance with the sa me paragraph and divided by forty .

Whole-time employees shall be allowed intervals for meals MinimumdailY ....

and rest of not less in the aggregate than an hour on anyone day.

Whole-time employees shan be enti tled to one day of rest in

every period of seve n consecutive days.

Whole-ti me sextons shall be entitled to the payme nt of Mi ...............

overtime at time-artd -a-half for any hours worked in excess of silt!y .-..

hours in every one week and/or for any hou rs worked in excess of 520

hOOfS over any period of 13 consecutive weeks, excl usive of one day of

rest every week .

Whole-time custod ians shall beentitled 10 the payment of overtime

at time-and-a-half for any hours worked in excess of fony hours in

every one week, excl usive of one day of rest eve ry week.

Whole-ti me employees shall be entitled to the payment of overt ime

at doubl e time for any hours worked on the weekly day of re st.

Vacation Leave entitlement shall be regulated in tenns of the V_i"" ... "' .

National Standard Order. Legal Notice 38 of 1989, or any other order

substi tut in g same. that is four working weeks and four days.

If any employee is required to wori; on a customary holiday. he

shall be en titled to another day off to be availed of in agreement with

his employer.

Afterooe year's service. a whole-lime employee sha11 in every Sid< ......

calendar year be ent itled to twenty days sic k leave on full pay less the

fu ll amount of any sickness benefit to which such employee may be

enti tled in tenns of\he Social Security Act, and twenty days sick leave Cop. lli.

on half pay less half the amount of any sickness be nefi t to which such

em ployee may be entitled in tenns of the Social Secu rity Act: provided

th at a medical certificate coveri ng the period of absence is produced to

the employer.

Who le-time employees shall be enti tled to two days leave 110 .......... ,,01 .....

with pay on the occasion of the death of any of these relatives: father,

mother or the legal custod ian of the employee, wife. husband, son,

daughter. brother or siSler.

II . Whole-time employees shal1 be entitled to two days leave 8i<!h ......

with pay on the occasion of the birth of a child to the wife.

12 . Whole-time employees shall beentitled to three working days

leave o n full pay on the occasion of their marriage.

Impjegati who/e-lime ikollhom jedd ghallliclI ijiem lax-

xoghol/eave b'paga shiha n -okkazjoni tat-zwieg t.aghhom.

13 . Impjcgal .... 'lwle·,inu ikollu jed(! gl\allNw ghaJ korriment

b'paga shiha sa massi mu ta ' sena, nieqes I-ammonl shih la' lrull bene-

ficcju Ii dak l-impjegat jisla' jkollu jedd ghali h skond I-A u dwar is-

Sigurtl SoCjali.jekk ikorri waql il-qadi allwali la' dmirijietu u dak il-

kommen! rna jkunx minhabba xi negligenz.a kontribUlorja minn naha

tieghu jew minhabba I-ksu r ta' xi regoli ta ' si~zza stabbiliti mill-

prinCipal.

14 . Impjeg81i whole-lime Ii jissejhu ghal servin la' gurat;

jinghalaw il-hin kollu mehtieg b' paga shiha sabiex ikunu jiSlghu jattcodu

ghal dak is-servizz IiI-Qorti.

Who le-timeemp]oyees shall beentitled to a maximum period

of one yea r injury leave on full pay, less the full amount of any injury

bene fit to whic h such employee may be en titled in terms of the Social

Security Act, if he is injured during the actual d isc harge of his duty and

nO!: due to contri butory negligence on his pan or to any contravention

of safety ru les laid down by the e mployer.

Whole-time employees called for jury service s hall be allowed

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all the necessary lime off on full pay to attend the Court on such service.

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