National Minimum Wage National Standard

L.N. 265 of 2000

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (REGULATION) ACT

(CAP. 135)

National Minimum Wage National Standard

Order, 2000

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

of Employment (Regulation) Act, the Deputy Prime Minister and

Minister for Social Policy, on the recommendation of the Labour Board,

has made the following order:-

The title of this order is the National Minimum Wage National

Standard Order, 2000, and it shall come into effect on the 1st January, 2001.

The National Minimum Wage per week related to a normal

National Minimum

working week shall be as follows

Age 18 years and over

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Lm49.88c per week

Age 17 years

Lm46.97c per week

Under 17 years

Lm45.75c per week.

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 employee 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

16 of the Conditions of Employment (Regulation) Act, or by any

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

standard order.