1) Minimum wages: The minimum wages which an employer shall pay to employees shall be as specified herein: Provided that-
i) if a new employer, as defined in clause 2(3), has been engaged in the sector for a period of not more than 12 months such wages may be reduced by not more than 10 per cent during such period, whereafter the minimum wages specified herein shall become payable.
ii) an employer who, at the coming into effect of this determination, employs not more than 30 employees in the aggregate in or in connection with his business and whose annual turnover does not exceed R450 000.00 shall pay his employees, in the first 12 months after the coming into effect of this determination, 70% of the wages specified herein and thereafter pay the minimum wages as specified. For the purpose of this subclause "annual turnover" means, at any date, the turnover for the preceding 12 months.
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2) Basis of contract.- For the purposes of this clause the contract of employment of an employee, shall be on a weekly basis, and except as provided for in clause 6(4), he or she shall be paid in respect of a week not less than the full weekly wage prescribed in subclause (1), as read with the definition of "wage" in clause 1 and with subclause (3), for an employee of his or her category in the area in which he or she works, whether he or she has in that week worked the maximum number of ordinary hours of work applicable to him or her or less.
3) Differential wage.- An employer who requires or permits a member of one category of employees to perform work for longer than one hour on any day, either in addition to his or her own work or in substitution therefore, work of another category for which-
a) a wage higher than that of his or her own category is set out in subclause (1), shall pay to such employee in respect of that day, not less than the daily wage calculated at the higher rate; or
b) a rising scale of wages terminating in a wage higher than that of his or her own category is set out in subclause (1), shall pay to such employee in respect of that day not less than the daily wage calculated on the notch in the rising scale immediately above the wage which the employee was receiving for his or her ordinary work:
Provided that-
i) this subclause shall not apply where the difference between categories in terms of subclause (1) is based on experience;
ii) unless expressly otherwise provided in a written contract between an employer and an employee, nothing in this determination shall be so construed as to preclude an employer from requiring an employee to perform work of another category for which the same or a lower wage is prescribed.
4) Calculation of wages.- The hourly, daily or monthly wage of an employee shall be calculated as indicated in the definitions of these expressions in clause 1.