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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 452.48
PRINTING AND PUBLISHING WAGES COUNCIL 
WAGE REGULATION ORDER
1st August, 1977
LEGAL NOTICE 88 of 1977, as amended by Legal Notice 6 of 1979.
Title.
Council Wage Regulation Order.
Field of operation 
of Wages Council.
2. The provisions of the Schedule to this Order shall apply to
all employees in respect of whom the Printing and Publishing
Wages Council operates.
Amended by:
L.N. 6 of 1979.
SCHEDULE
Definitions.
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 worker" means an employee who is not a night worker;
"hours of work" means the time on any day during which an
employee is at the disposal of the employer, exclusive of the
intervals allowed for meals and rest;
"night worker" means an employee, other than a watchman,
whose hours of work on any day, exclusive of overtime, start after
5.00 p.m. or end after 8.00 p.m.;
"part-time employee" means an employee who is not a whole-
time employee;
"period of employment" means the time in any day during which
an employee is at the disposal of the employer, but inclusive of the
intervals allowed for meals and rest;
"time-and-a-half" means one and a half times the hourly rate
obtained by dividing by forty, in the case of day worker, and by
thirty-eight, in the case of a night worker, the minimum weekly
remuneration to which the employee is entitled under the
provisions of paragraph 3 of this Schedule;
"wage" means remuneration or earnings, payable in money by an
employer to an employee;
"whole-time employee" means an employee who works for more
than thirty hours in any one week;
"working day", in respect of any employee, means any day in
which such employee is normally expected to work.
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Hours of work. 2. The minimum weekly remuneration specified in paragraph
3 of this Schedule relates -
( a ) in the case of a day worker, to a week of forty hours of
work spread over five days;
( b ) in the case of a night worker, to a week of thirty-eight
hours of work exclusive of overtime, and in the case of
watchman, to a week of forty-eight hours of work
exclusive of overtime.
Minimum 
remuneration.
3. The minimum weekly remuneration payable to whole-time
employees shall be the following:
( a ) Watchmen .............................................. Lm17.38,0;
and
( b ) Other employees aged:
(i) 18 years or over ............................ Lm17.38,0
(ii) 17 years  ....................................... Lm14.47,0
(iii) 16 years  ....................................... Lm13.24,0.
Minimum daily 
rest.
4. Employees, whether day or night workers, shall be allowed
intervals of not less, in the aggregate, than one hour for meals and
rest in any one period of employment in which the hours of work
are not less than five and a half.
Minimum weekly 
rest.
5. Employees shall be allowed one whole day off each week.
Overtime. 6. (1) Overtime shall be payable as follows:
( a ) in the case of watchmen, time-and-a-half for all work
in excess of forty-eight hours in any week;
( b ) in the case of day workers other than watchmen -
(i) for work in excess of eight hours in any one 
day  ........................................ time-and-a-half;
(ii) for work in excess of forty hours in any week,
exclusive of any time paid for at overtime 
rates ........................................ time-and-a-half;
( c ) in the case of night workers other than watchmen -
(i) for work in excess of six and a half hours in any
period of employment ............. time-and-a-half;
(ii) for work in excess of thirty-eight hours in any
week, exclusive of any time paid for at overtime 
rates ......................................... time-and-a-half.
(2) Saving the provisions of sub-paragraph (1) of this
paragraph -
( a ) in the case of night workers conditioned to a five day
week, the number of hours in excess of which work is
to be paid for at overtime rates shall be seven and a
half hours in any period of employment, and 
( b ) subject to the provisions of paragraph 7 of this
Schedule, in any week in which a working day
happens to be a customary holiday, overtime shall be
payable for work in excess of thirty-two hours in the
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case of day workers, and thirty-one and a half hours in
the case of night workers conditioned to a six day
week and thirty and a half hours in the case of night
workers conditioned to a five day week.
Holidays. 
year, to -
( a ) all customary holidays with full pay, and
( b ) after three months in employment, vacation leave of
such number of working days with full pay as is
equivalent to the number of working days as that
particular employee should normally attend to work
during a period of four weeks:
Provided that whole-time employees who have
been in employment for less than one year shall be
entitled to such part of the said vacation leave as is in
proportion to the number of months in employment.
Sick leave. 
Cap. 318.
8. After the completion of one year’s continuous service,
employees shall be entitled to twelve 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, provided that a medical
certificate certifying incapacity for work covering the whole period
of absence is produced to the employer.
Injury leave.
Cap. 318.
9. A whole-time employee shall be entitled to a maximum of
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 duty, and such injury is not due to any contributory negligence
on his part or to the contravention by him of any safety rules laid
down by the management.
Bereavement.
leave on the occasion of the death of any of the following relatives:
the wife or 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 daughter or son, and the sister or brother.
Special leave.
leave on the occasion of their marriage and one day paid leave on
the occasion of the birth of any child to the wife of the employee.
Jury service.
allowed all necessary time off to enable them to attend the Courts
without loss of pay.
Part-time 
employees.
13. Part-time employees shall be paid  pro rata  at an hourly
rate not less than that applicable to whole-time employees, namely
the appropriate rate per week shown in paragraph 3 of this
Schedule, divided by the number of hours as stipulated in
paragraph 2 of the said Schedule.
Retiring age. 
expected at the age of sixty years, such employee shall be given the
opportunity by his 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
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at the age of sixty years.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order but is intended to indicate its
applicability).
The provisions of the above Schedule will apply to all
employees, other than apprentices, in all establishments engaged in
printing, publishing or book-binding.
