VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA
B 13
B 13
L.N. 5 of 2017
EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT
(CAP. 452)
Wholesale and Retail Trades Wages Council Wage Regulation
(Amendment) Order, 2017
IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 4 and 48 (2) of
the Employment and Industrial Relations Act, 2002, the Minister for
Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties has made the
following Order –
1. The title of this Order is the Wholesale and Retail Trades
Wages Council Wage Regulation (Amendment) Order, 2017 and it
shall be read and construed as one with the Wholesale and Retail
Trades Wages Council Wage Regulation Order, hereinafter referred to
as "the principal Order".
Title.
2.
In paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the principal Order, the
definition "half day" shall be deleted.
Amends
paragraph 1 of
the Schedule to
the principal
Order.
3. Paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the principal Order shall be
substituted by the following:
Amends
paragraph 2 of
the Schedule to
the principal
Order.
"2.
The minimum weekly remuneration payable to
whole-time employees shall be related to a week of not more
than forty hours spread over six days:
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Provided that the hours of work of watchmen shall
be related to a week of not more than sixty hours spread over six
days.".
4.
Paragraph 5 of the Schedule to the principal Order shall be
amended as follows:
(a)
subparagraph (1) thereof shall be deleted; and
(b)
subparagraph (2) thereof shall be substituted by the
following:
"(2)
All whole time employees shall be entitled to at
least one day of rest in every calendar week.".
Amends
paragraph 5 of
the Schedule to
the principal
Order.
VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA
B 14
B 14
Amends
paragraph 6 of
the Schedule to
the principal
Order.
5. Subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 6 of the Schedule
to the principal Order and paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) shall be
renumbered as paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) accordingly.
Adds new
paragraph 6A to
the principal
Order.
6. Immediately after paragraph 6 of the Schedule to the
principal Order, there shall be inserted a new paragraph 6A as
follows:
"6A. (1) Employees in respect of whom this Order
applies shall only be obliged to work on Sundays if they give
their written consent to work on Sundays to their employer.
(2)
Only those employees who give their consent in
terms of this paragraph shall be obliged to work on Sundays.
These employees shall be paid in accordance with paragraph 6
of this schedule.
(3)
No employee shall be subject to any disadvantage,
threat or actual dismissal by his employer on account that he is
not willing to give his consent to work on Sundays in terms of
this paragraph.
(4)
This paragraph shall not apply to those employees
who are obliged to work on Sundays by virtue of a pre requisite
in their contract of employment or in the written statement
which must be drawn up in terms of the Act and its subsidiary
legislation."
Amends
paragraph 7 of
the Schedule to
the principal
Order.
7.
In paragraph 7 of the Schedule to the principal Order, the
words "sub-paragraphs (1) and (2)" shall be deleted.
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