Employee Compensation
Legal Nuggets
- Normally, salaries are agreed between the employers and employees whilst taking into cognisance the Collective Agreements applicable to the industry in which the employee is employed, if any.
- For ‘workers’ within the meaning of the Labour Act, salaries should be paid at the end of each period for which the contract of employment is expressed to subsist i.e. daily, weekly or monthly or at such other times as may be agreed upon by the employer and employee. Where the contract of employment subsists for more than a month, salaries shall become payable at intervals not exceeding one month.
- It is usually the duty of the employer to provide suitable work for the ‘worker’ on every day on which the ‘worker’ presents himself and is fit for work except where a Collective Agreement provides otherwise or where the ‘worker’ is suspended.
- An employer who fails to provide such work shall pay the worker for each day the employer has failed to provide work to the worker. If, however the worker is suspended from work as a punishment for breach of discipline or any other offence, he is not entitled to be paid during such period of suspension from work.
- With the exception of the foregoing instances, a worker or an employee who does not work should generally not be entitled to be paid.