The minimum wage covers all workers and employees under labour contract.

Specific articles of the Labour Code provide cases when employees are guaranteed the minimum monthly wage

The table shows that the wage gap between sectors is to the disadvantage of private sector employees.

Most Hong Kong employees freely negotiate their remuneration packages with their employers. But as a special safeguard and to protect local employees from competition from cheap imported labour foreign domestic helpers, uniquely in Hong Kong, receive a minimum allowable wage' ( the wage').

In the public sector 81.2 of employees have incomes exceeding twice the minimum wage, whereas only 52.6 of employees in the private sector are in this income group.

Many a time benefits of such wage increases have been extended to employees in the non government sector as well.

The wage and salary levels are such as to ensure the public service employees and their families an adequate standard of living.

For non manual employees the negotiations normally take place on the basis of a standard wage system, though with different seniority rates.

42. The right to a minimum wage is a fundamental constitutional right of workers and employees (art. 48, para. 5, of the Constitution).

The main factor influencing the amount of the minimum monthly wage is the possibilities of the national budget that determine the increase in the minimum monthly wage of employees working at institutions financed from the national budget.

The minimum monthly wage is the lowest salary that all employers must secure to their employees for work the normal working hours (40 hours per week).

The Committee noted that the Salaries and Positions Allowances Act, 1995, establishes a National Compensation Committee charged with formulating wage recommendations for various classes of public employees.

Minimum wage in Kazakhstan increased by 32 on 1 January 2004. On average, wages rose by 20 for budget sphere workers and by 50 for State employees.

It changes in accordance with the development of the gross earnings of all insured persons covered by the Wage Earners apos and Salaried Employees apos Pension Scheme.

Recommendations made by these commissions and wage decisions made on the recommendations apply to all employees in the public sector from the lowest to the highest grade.

For example, companies increasingly augment standard wage packages with stock options, even for rank and file employees. In the United States, the Labor Department reports that in 2003, 14 of US workers in firms with 100 or more employees were offered stock options.

As the minimum wage is increased, employers incentive to substitute equipment or more skilled employees strengthens. This reduction in the demand for low skilled workers could be offset by taking into account the hourly equivalent of transfer payments when calculating the minimum wage.

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referred to we may say that remuneration near the level of the minimum wage was received in 1992 by around 3.4 per cent of the total number of employees (including 2.4 per cent of employees in the public sector and around 7.7 per cent of employees in the private sector) and in 1993 by 4 per cent of all the employed people (including 2 per cent of employees in the public sector and 9.4 per cent of employees in the private sector).

Article 69 of the Labour Code secures this right once more, providing that all employees shall be granted annual vacations, retaining the work place (position) and the average wage.

Public employees total Local government employees total

In part time jobs and flexible jobs' the differences are not as great, but even here the hourly wage of women employees is, on average, lower than that of men.

The Council of Ministers fixes the minimum wage having discussed it in tripartite cooperation with workers apos and employees apos trade unions and with the employers (art. 3 of the Labour Code).

The available data points to the existence of two tier wage economy of Guam, where government employees now earn, on the average, nearly three quarters more than those in the private sector.

Relation of the minimum wage to an average wage in

Other employees

The purpose of establishing the minimum monthly wage is to guarantee at least the survival minimum to all employees those working in the private sector, as well as those employed in the public sector.

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Higher growth of the minimum wage than of the average wage.

142. In addition, some employees operate varying medical schemes for their employees.

The LSMS analysis showed that 18 per cent of employees in the informal sector were under 25, and 7 per cent in the formal sector, the main reason being the level of the minimum wage.

ACS's employees are but the first Africans to benefit from the hottest trend in the global economy outsourcing, or the shift of service jobs from high wage to low wage countries. To be sure, the number of jobs moving to Africa is tiny compared to those going to Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.

with no employees.

(a) Women employees

All employees of the police are public employees, and therefore may not strike.

10. The law provides that all telephone operators, irrespective of the enterprise, company or office where they work, must be considered commercial employees and cannot, accordingly, be considered wage earners (Supreme Decree of 17 May 1929).

Article 185 of the Labour Code, in its turn, establishes remuneration for young people Employees who are under the age of 18 and who work part time on daily basis shall be paid for their work according to the work performed but not less than the minimum wage established in the country. In 2000, upon conducting preventive activities, the State Labour Inspection discovered several cases when a total of 30 employees had not been ensured the minimum monthly wage established in the country.

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