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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 452.52
TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT, METAL AND ALLIED 
INDUSTRIES WAGES COUNCIL WAGE 
REGULATION ORDER
8th August, 1977
LEGAL NOTICE 101 of 1977, as amended by Legal Notices 123 of 1978,
24 of 1979 and 45 of 1990.
Title.
Allied Industries Wages Council Wage Regulation Order.
Field of operation 
of Wages Council.
2. The provisions set out in the Schedule hereto shall apply to
all employees in respect of whom the Transport Equipment, Metal
and Allied Industries Wages Council operates.
Amended by:
L.N. 123 of 1978;
L.N. 24 of 1979;
L.N. 45 of 1990.
SCHEDULE
Interpretation. 
Cap. 252.
"customary holidays" means the days (other than Sundays)
declared for the time being to be public holidays by or under the
National Holidays and other Public Holidays Act;
"day" means a period running from midnight of one day to
midnight of the next following day;
"half day" means a period running from midnight to noon, or
from noon to midnight;
"hours of work" means the time on any day during which
employees are at the disposal of the employer, exclusive of the
intervals allowed for meals and rest;
Cap. 343.
"learner" has the same meaning assigned to it by the
Employment and Training Services Act;
"part-time employee" means an employee who is not a whole-
time employee:
Provided that no part-time employee shall be employed for
more than half a day on any one day;
"period of employment" means the time in any day during which
employees are at the disposal of the employer, inclusive of the
intervals allowed for meals and rest;
"shift employees" means employees in any factory to which this
Schedule applies who normally are required to be at the disposal of
their employer twenty-four hours a day;
"time and a half" and "double time" mean respectively one and a
half times and twice the minimum time rate applicable to the
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employee;
"wages" means remuneration or earnings, payable in money by
an employer to an employee;
"week" means a calendar week;
"weekly day of rest" means a period of twenty-four consecutive
hours commencing at the time at which the employee would
normally commence his turn of duty;
"whole-time employee" means an employee who is employed for
more than twenty-five hours in any week spread over not less than
four days.
Hours of work. 2. The minimum weekly remuneration shall be related to a
working week as follows:
( a ) in the case of all employees, other than watchmen and
night shift workers, to forty hours spread over a week
of five days;
( b ) in the case of watchmen to sixty hours;
( c ) in the case of workers actually working on night shift
to thirty-seven and one half hours.
Minimum 
remuneration.
3. The minimum weekly remuneration payable to all whole-
time employees, including learners, shall be the following -
( a ) watchmen  .............................................. Lm19.38
( b ) other whole-time employees:
at age 16 years   Lm15.38
at age 17 years  ........................................ Lm16.38
at age 18 years  ........................................ Lm19.38:
Provided that -
( a ) where an establishment is conditioned to a working
week of less than forty hours, the minimum wage laid
down above shall apply; and
( b ) an employee who, in any week, is employed for a
number of hours less than the appropriate number of
hours to which his minimum weekly remuneration
relates in accordance with the provisions of paragraph
2 of this Schedule, shall be paid  pro rata  on an hourly
rate not less than that applicable to him, namely the
appropriate rate per week divided by the number of
hours per week to which his establishment is
conditioned.
Shift premium. 4. Employees working on a shift system shall be paid a shift
premium of one lira a week for working the first (morning) shift or
the second (afternoon) shift. Employees working the third (night)
shift shall be paid at time and a quarter normal rate.
Minimum daily 
rest.
5. All whole-time employees, other than watchmen, shall be
allowed intervals for meals and rest of not less, in the aggregate,
than one hour per day:
Provided that - 
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( a ) subject to the provisions of paragraph ( b ) of this
proviso, the interval or intervals shall be allowed after
the first or before the last hour of the period of
employment; and
( b ) where the last half hour of the period of employment is
allowed as a half hour of rest the employees shall be
entitled to leave the place of work as soon as that half
hour starts.
Minimum weekly 
rest.
6. All whole-time employees shall be allowed a weekly day
of rest every week.
Minimum overtime 
rates.
7. (1) Watchmen shall be entitled to overtime at the rate of
time-and-a-half for all time worked in excess of sixty hours over a
period of six consecutive days and for all time worked on the
seventh day and shall be entitled to overtime pay at the rate of
double-time for all time worked on a customary holiday or vacation
leave not granted.
(2) Shift employees shall be entitled to overtime remuneration
at the rate of time-and-a-half in respect of all time worked in excess
of an average of forty hours in the case of day and afternoon shifts,
and thirty-seven and a half hours in the case of night shift, where in
any cycle of two or three weeks, as the case may be, the weekly
average number of hours of work exceeds forty hours or thirty-
seven and a half as the case may be.
(3) All employees, other than those specified in sub-
paragraphs (1) and (2) of this paragraph, shall be entitled to
overtime remuneration as follows -
( a ) for all time worked in excess of forty hours in any
week ................................................. time-and-a-half;
( b ) for all time worked in excess of eight hours on any day
other than a Sunday or a customary holiday
.......................................................... time-and-a-half;
( c ) for all time worked on Sundays, customary holidays or
vacation leave not granted .......................double time.
(4) When the normal number of working hours per week of an
employee is less than forty hours such overtime rate shall be paid
for all time worked in excess of his normal number of working
hours in any one week.
Holidays.
whole-time employees may be entitled under paragraph 6, whole-
time employees shall be entitled to the National Holidays and to all
public holidays with full pay, and to the following vacation leave
not being less than -
( a ) four working weeks and one working day during the
calendar years 1988 and 1989;
( b ) four working weeks and two working days during the
calendar year 1990;
( c ) four working weeks and three working days during the
calendar year 1991;
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( d ) four working weeks and four working days during the
calendar year 1992 and during any calendar year
thereafter:
Provided that when a whole-time employee is in
employment for less than twelve months during any calendar year,
he shall be entitled to such part of the said vacation leave as is in
proportion to the number of months in employment.
(2) For the purpose of this paragraph "vacation leave" means
leave with pay which may be availed of on days agreed upon
between the employer and the employee, provided that one day
vacation leave during 1988 and 1989, two days vacation leave
during 1990, three days vacation leave during 1991 and four days
vacation leave during 1992 and during any calendar year thereafter
shall not form part of any shutdown and shall be granted by the
employer as optional leave in addition to any optional leave the
employee may have been entitled to on the 9th November, 1988.
Sick leave. 
Cap. 318.
9. After completing the first six months of employment, whole-
time employees shall be entitled to twenty days sick leave on full
pay in every calendar year less any sickness benefit to which they
may be entitled under the Social Security Act. After one year in
employment such employees shall be entitled to an additional
twenty days sick leave on half pay less one half any sickness
benefit to which they may be entitled under the Social Security Act:
Provided that within two days a medical certificate
certifying incapacity for work covering the period of absence is
produced to the employer, who shall be entitled, if he so wishes, to
send his own medical officer to examine the employee.
Bereavement 
leave.
10. Whole-time employees shall be allowed two days paid
leave on the occasion of the death of any of the following relatives:
the wife, husband, the mother or father (or the person who at the
time was in fact acting as the mother or father of the employee), the
son, daughter, brother and sister.
Special leave. 11. Whole-time employees shall be entitled to one working
week paid leave on the occasion of their marriage, provided they
remain in employment for at least three months after marriage, and
to two days paid leave on the occasion of the birth of a child to the
wife of the employee.
Injury leave.
Cap. 318.
12. A whole-time employee shall be entitled to one year injury
leave on full pay, less the full amount of any injury benefit to
which such employee may be entitled in terms of the Social
Security Act, if he is injured during the actual discharge of his
duties and such injury is not due to any contributory negligence on
his part.
Jury service. 13. A whole-time employee, if called upon to serve as juror,
shall be allowed time off as necessary, without any deduction from
the pay to which he would otherwise have been entitled, so as to
enable him to attend to such duties at the Courts.
Minimum 
remuneration of 
part-time 
employees.
14. Part-time employees shall be entitled to a minimum hourly
rate calculated  pro rata  in accordance with the provisions of
paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Schedule.
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15. An employee is entitled to the payment of the minimum
remuneration applicable to him for all time during which he is
present on the premises of his employer or in any other place in
connection with his employment unless he is present thereon in any
of the following circumstances -
( a ) without the employer’s consent, expressed or implied;
( b ) for some purpose unconnected with his work and other
than that of waiting for work to be given to him to
perform;
( c ) by reason only of the fact that he is resident thereon;
( d ) during normal meal times in a room or place in which
no work is being done and he is not waiting for work
to be given to him to perform.
Retiring age.
expected at the age of sixty years, such employee shall be given the
opportunity by the employer to retain his employment beyond this
age at least until the age of sixty-one years, provided that the
employee in question shall still be allowed, if he so wishes, to retire
at the age of sixty years.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the order but is intended to indicate its
applicability).
1. The provisions of the above Schedule apply to all
employees in all factories engaged in the manufacture of transport
equipment, metal and allied products, being factories engaged in
any of the following:
( a ) manufacture of metal products other than the
manufacture of clocks and watches, scientific and
optical goods, silverware and jewellery but including
the plating and polishing of metal products;
( b ) manufacture of machinery;
( c ) manufacture of electrical machinery;
( d ) manufacture of transport equipment including the
repair, rebuilding and retreading of tyres, but
excluding the manufacture wholly or mainly of boats
of wood and motor vehicle bodies;
( e ) scrap-metal works including the cutting, sorting,
crushing, breaking up or baling of metals;
( f ) repairs of television sets and radios.
2. The provisions of this Schedule do not apply to any
employees engaged in the installation, erection, and fitting of
transmission and distribution equipment for electric energy, gas or
water, whether inside or outside buildings.
