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TimesLIVE reports that Department of Employment & Labour (DEL) Minister Nomakhosazana Meth has announced an increase in the national minimum wage (NMW) rate from R27.58 to R28.79 for each ordinary hour worked.
The minister has fixed 1 March as the date on which the new NMW will be effective. The NMW is the minimum amount of pay that an employer is legally required to remunerate employees for work done and no employee should be paid below the NMW. However, because of special dispensation under which they were hired, workers employed on the expanded public works programme (EPWP) will only be entailed to R15.83 an hour. These new amounts were published in a Government Gazette on Tuesday. The DEL pointed out that the NMW determination included vulnerable sectors such as farm workers and domestic workers, who since 2022 have been aligned with the general NMW rates. The department confirmed that the 4.2% increase applied to all workers. The NMW does not include payment of allowances such as transport, tools, food or accommodation, or payments in kind (board or lodging), tips, bonuses and gifts.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ernest Mabuza at BusinessLive
- Read too, Here’s how much domestic workers should earn from 1 March, at The Citizen
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