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If I want to hire a worker for only 7 hours per day for 5 days per week. Am I allowed to pay only the hourly rate?
Yes. For a worker engaged for 7 hours per day over 5 days, the supplied provisions permit remuneration to be set by the hour. The worker would work 35 ordinary hours per week, which is within the Act’s maximum of 45 hours per week and 9 hours per day for employees working five days or fewer. 14
If you pay an hourly rate, the weekly pay is calculated by multiplying that rate by the ordinary hours worked each week. Any overtime must be agreed and paid at not less than one and one-half times the hourly basic wage. 12
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determine the applicable hourly, daily, weekly or monthly rate of pay of an employee - (a) whose remuneration is based on a different time interval; or (b) who is remunerated on a basis other than time worked. (2) If an employee is remunerated on a basis other than time worked, that employee must be considered, for the purpose of this section, to be remunerated on a weekly basis, and that employee’s weekly remuneration or weekly basic wage must be calculated as follows: (a) calculate the total amount of remuneration or basic wage earned by the employee during - (i) the immediately preceding 13 weeks of work; or (ii) if the employee has been in employment for a shorter period, that shorter pe...
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require or permit an employee to work overtime except in accordance with an agreement, but, such an agreement must not require an employee to work more than 10 hours overtime a week, and in any case, not more than three hours’ overtime a day. (2) An employer must pay an employee for each hour of overtime worked at a rate at least one and one-half times the employee’ s hourly basic wage but, when an employee who ordinarily works on a Sunday or public holiday, works overtime on that Sunday or public holiday, the employer must pay that employee at a rate of at least double the employee’ s hourly basic wage. (3) An employer may apply in writing to the Permanent Secretary to increase the limits o...
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Calculate the weekly rate, then multiply the calculated weekly rate by 4,333. Employees whose remuneration is set by the day Divide the daily rate by the number of ordinary hours of work each day. Multiply the hourly rate by the number of ordinary hours of work each week. Calculate the weekly rate, then multiply the calculated weekly rate by 4,333. Employees whose remuneration is set by the week Divide the weekly rate (or calculated weekly rate) by the number of ordinary Divide the weekly rate (or calculated weekly rate) by the number of ordinary Calculate the weekly rate, then multiply the
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require or permit an employee, other than an employee contemplated in subsection (3), to work more than - (a) 45 hours in any week, and in any case, not more than - (i) nine hours on any day, if the employee works for five days or fewer in a week; or (ii) eight hours on any day, if the employee works for more than five days in a week; or (b) if the employee works in a continuous operation, the maximum number of hours prescribed by the Minister in terms of section 15(2) for that employee’s continuous shift. (2) The ordinary hours of work of an employee described in subsection (1) whose duties include serving members of the public may be extended up to 15 minutes in a day, but not more than a...
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Sunday, except as provided in this section. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to an employer who employs an employee for the purposes of - (a) urgent work; (b) carrying on the business of a shop, hotel, boarding house or hostel that lawfully operates on a Sunday; (c) performing domestic service in a private household; (d) health and social welfare care and residential facilities, including hospitals, hospices, orphanages and old age homes; (e) work on a farm required to be done on that day; (f) work in which continuous shifts are worked; or (g) any activity approved by the Permanent Secretary in terms of subsection (4). (3) An employer may apply in writing to the Permanent Secretary to appro...
Mines Works and Minerals Ordinance 20 of 1968-Regulations 1968-0143
(c) If the duty is a continuity of the shift, only the hours actually worked in excess of those laid down in (a) or (b) above, as the case may be, shall be paid for: Provided that the employee has been warned during his ordinary shift that he will be required to work extra time. If the employee is called back for extra duty after the completion of his normal shift, he shall be paid at the increased rate for a minimum of two hours in respect of every call out, if the task is completed in less than two hours. Should the task take up to six hours to complete, only hours worked shall be paid for; should the task take more than six hours, but more than eight hours to complete, the employee shall...