Pay rise for domestic workers
The Department of Labour has released new guidelines for the minimum wages of domestic workers effective from the 1st of December.
In big metropolitan areas including eThekwini, Msunduzi and Hibiscus Coast Municipalities - this means the minimum helpers who work more than 27 hours per week should earn is 11.44 per hour - up from 10.59 - or a weekly rate of R 514.82. The monthly wage minimum in R2230.70.
The hourly rate for those working 27 hours or less is R13.39.
Employees who work more than 27 hours in smaller metropolitan areas should be paid not less than R10.23 per hour and those who work 27 hours or less should be paid a minimum of R12.07 per hour.
Spokesperson for the Department Mokgadi Pela says workers can go to any Department of Labour office if they feel the wage guidelines are not being followed.
''We urge workers to go and register their complaints immediately, in any of our offices, so that we can send inspectors to that particular place so that that particular employer would then be made aware of the need to comply with the law, failing which there could be negative consequences,'' he said.
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