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General minimum wage by territory, as of February 2023. This is a list of the official minimum wage rates of the 193 United Nations member states and former members of the United Nations, also including the following territories and states with limited recognition (Northern Cyprus, Kosovo, etc.) and other independent countries.
The Wages Act (1925) was an act of the Parliament of South Africa which established a Wage Board which fixed minimum wages for workers not covered by industrial councils. [1] It excluded farm labourers, domestic servants, and public servants. White workers were the main beneficiaries of this legislation because it prevented black workers from ...
This template calculates a worker's annual wage (calculated on a PPP basis) as a percentage of the GDP per capita in the worker's country in 2012 given the worker's country, pay period, and earnings in the local currency during that period.
No minimum working age (New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory) [85] New Zealand: 14: Babysitting [86] 15: Limited vehicle work and hazardous workplaces (logging, construction, heavy lifting, dangerous goods) [86] 16: Unrestricted working hours (between 10pm and 6am, and during school hours) [86] 18: Full Time ...
The Department of Employment and Labour is the department of the South African government responsible for matters related to employment, including industrial relations, job creation, unemployment insurance and occupational health and safety. Through a range of initiatives developed in collaboration with social partners, the Department of ...
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The wages board did not set a universal minimum wage; rather it set basic wages for 6 industries that were considered to pay low wages. [7] First enacted as a four-year experiment, the wages board was renewed in 1900 and made permanent in 1904; by that time it covered 150 different industries. [ 7 ]
The common law of South Africa, "an amalgam of principles drawn from Roman, Roman-Dutch, English and other jurisdictions, which were accepted and applied by the courts in colonial times and during the period that followed British rule after Union in 1910," [76] plays virtually no role in collective labour law. Initially, in fact, employment law ...