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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 452.72
SEXTONS AND CUSTODIANS WAGES COUNCIL 
WAGE REGULATION ORDER
1st February, 1996
LEGAL NOTICE 6 of 1996.
Title.
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 Sextons and Custodians
Wages Council operates.
SCHEDULE
Applicability.
custodians of churches, museums or buildings open for exhibitions
to the public.
(2) The word "custodian" includes, besides a person wholly
employed for the custody of a church, museum or building, any
person principally, or mainly engaged in the cleaning, maintenance
or security of such church, museum or building.
Interpretation.
Cap. 252.
2. In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires - 
"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; 
"hours of work" means the time on any day during which the
employees are at the disposal of the employer, exclusive of
intervals allowed for meals and rest;
"part-time employee" means an employee who is not a whole-
time employee;
"time-and-a-half" and "double-time" mean respectively one and a
half times and double the actual time rates applicable to the
employee;
"wages" means remuneration or earnings payable in money to an
employee by an employer;
"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 time of duty;
"whole-time employee" means an employee who works for more
than twenty hours spread over a period of six days in any one week
with the same employer.
Hours of work. 
twenty hours (40 hours x 13 weeks) spread over a period of thirteen
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weeks commencing from the first week of every quarter, provided
that the hours of work shall not exceed sixty hours in any one week,
with one day of rest every week.
(2) The hours of work shall be spread over six days, so that
sextons shall be entitled to at least one day of rest in every period
of seven consecutive days.
(3) The hours of work of custodians shall be forty hours spread
over a period of six days, so that custodians shall be entitled to one
day of rest in every period of seven consecutive days.
Minimum wages.  4. The minimum weekly wages payable to whole-time
employees shall be as follows -
Age 18 and over .......................................... Lm42.38c per week
Age 17 to 18 years ......................................... Lm39.47 per week
Under 17 years ............................................ Lm38.25c per week
Part-time employees shall be paid  pro rata  at an hourly rate
or part thereof not below the national minimum wage, as
determined in accordance with the same paragraph and divided by
forty.
Minimum daily 
rest.
5.  Whole-time employees shall be allowed intervals for meals
and rest of not less in the aggregate than an hour on any one day.
Minimum weekly 
rest. 
6. Whole-time employees shall be entitled to one day of rest
in every period of seven consecutive days.
Maximum 
overtime rate.
7. Whole-time sextons shall be entitled to the payment of
overtime at time-and-a-half for any hours worked in excess of sixty
hours in every one week and/or for any hours worked in excess of
five hundred and twenty hours over any period of thirteen
consecutive weeks, exclusive of one day of rest every week.
Whole-time custodians shall be entitled to the payment of
overtime at time-and-a-half for any hours worked in excess of forty
hours in every one week, exclusive of one day of rest every week.
Whole-time employees shall be entitled to the payment of
overtime at double time for any hours worked on the weekly day of
rest.
Vacation leave.
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8.  Vacation Leave entitlement shall be regulated in terms of
the Weekly Day of Rest and Annual Vacation Leave National
Standard Order, or any other Order substituting the same, that is
four working weeks and four days.
If any employee is required to work on a customary holiday, he
shall be entitled to another day off to be availed of in agreement
with his employer.
Sick leave.
Cap. 318.
9.   After one year’s service, a whole-time employee shall in
every calendar year be entitled to twenty days sick leave on full pay
less the full amount of any sickness benefit to which such employee
may be entitled in terms of the Social Security Act, and twenty
days sick leave on half pay less half the amount of any sickness
benefit to which such employee may be entitled in terms of the
Social Security Act; provided that a medical certificate covering
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the period of absence is produced to the employer.
Bereavement 
leave.
10.  Whole-time employees shall be entitled to two days leave
with pay on the occasion of the death of any of these relatives:
father, mother or the legal custodian of the employee, wife,
husband, son, daughter, brother or sister.
Birth leave. 
with pay on the occasion of the birth of a child to the wife.
Marriage leave. 
days leave on full pay on the occasion of their marriage.
Injury leave.
Cap. 318.
13.  Whole-time employees shall be entitled to a maximum
period 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 not due to contributory negligence on his
part or to any contravention of safety rules laid down by the
employer.
Leave for jury 
service.
14. Whole-time employees called for jury service shall be
allowed all the necessary time off on full pay to attend the Court on
such service.
