The minimum has touched about 12 sectors which are agriculture, health, communication, domestic and hotel work, personal protection services, energy, transportation, construction, mining, private schools and business and industrial sectors. Also, the changes have affected the fishing and marine services sector and other sectors and the law has given permission to the employer to pay the employee more than the minimum unless he does not pay the employee below the announced rate. The announcement has come five months ago, since Minister Ndalichako announced that the Government was in the final stages of announcing the minimum wage for the private sector, while opening the 63rd General Meeting of the Association of Employers (ATE). Through the law, in addition to paid annual leave, an employee will be entitled to a holiday allowance once every two years of service and a truck driver will be entitled to an allowance for travel distance and stay outside the station.
Wage rates In the new rates, an employee working in restaurants, lodges and bars will be paid a minimum of Sh150,000/= per month, mid-range hotels Sh180,000/= and tourist hotels will be paid Sh300,000/=. A domestic worker who does not live in the employer’s household will be paid less than Sh120,000/= while those who are not in that group will be paid Sh60,000/= per month, while domestic workers employed by diplomats and big businessmen will be paid a minimum of Sh250,000.
Employees who work in communication services will be paid a minimum of Sh500,000/= while employees of advertising and media services, postal and package delivery will be paid a minimum of Sh225,000/=. In large tourist hotels, an employee will be paid a minimum of Sh300,000/=, medium hotels Sh180,000/=, while in large and international companies, the security service will be paid Sh222,000/= while small companies will be paid Sh148,000/=.
If this is the case in the sector, in the Energy sector international companies will be paid Sh592,000 and small companies Sh225,000, while in the transport sector, those working in aviation services will be paid Sh390,000. In that sector, workers who work to provide cargo delivery and distribution services will be paid a minimum wage of Sh360,000, while those who work in land transport services are Sh300,000. The announcement has not left the contractors behind, where contractors of the second to fourth grade will be paid a minimum of Sh360,000, while those of the fifth to seventh grade will be paid a minimum salary of Sh320,000 per month.
In the mining sector, the minimum wage for mining and prospecting license holders will be Sh500,000, while the minimum wage for small-scale mining license holders will be Sh300,000 and for business license holders will be Sh450,000. Private school services starting from primary, primary and secondary schools will be paid a minimum of Sh207,000, while in the business and industrial sector they will be paid Sh150,000 and financial institutions will be paid Sh592,000 per month. The fishing industry and marine services have been allocated a minimum of Sh238,000 per month and all other sectors that are not specified in the Government announcement, they will be paid a salary of Sh150,000 per month.
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TPSF, TUCTA open When asked by phone yesterday, the General Secretary of the Federation of Trade Unions (Tucta), Henry Mkunda said that until the Government announced the minimum wage for the private sector, there was a process that took five years. For his part, the Policy Director of the Private Sector Institute (TPSF), Zachy Mbena said that the move is good, because the existence of a system that coordinates salary levels increases morale, even though there are private sectors that pay employees more due to their performance. Economists open up The senior lecturer of the College of Business (CBE), Dr. Dickson Pastory said “The positive result is that the Government will increase its income through the PAYE tax (pay as you earn) which is deducted from the salary. Therefore, if the salary increases, the Paye increases,” said the economist. Business expert and analyst of social issues, Conrad Kabewa said that the increase in the minimum wage becomes meaningless if the Government does not control inflation.