“Full pay” means basic pay, allowances and the cash equivalent of any allowances in

kind applicable for a period not exceeding one month, but does not include payments in
respect of any bonus;

“Full-time” means employment under a contract of employment that requires work to be

done for the maximum hours per week, not exceeding a total of 48 hours, stipulated by
an employer;

“gratuity” means a payment made to an employee in respect of a person’s service on

the expiry of a long-term contract of employment based on basic pay earnings that have
accrued to the employee during the term of service;

“Immediate family” means a spouse, child, parent, guardian, sibling, grandchild,

grandparent or dependant of an employee;

“HIV” has the meaning assigned to the acronym in the

National HIV/AIDS/Act No. 10 of STI/ TB Council Act, 2002; which means “Human
Immune Deficiency Virus.”

“Hourly rate” means the applicable rate of pay per hour as stipulated by an employer
for regular employment, except that such rate shall not be less than a rate prescribed
under section 75 on minimum wages;
Section 75 states that, “(1) Subject to subsection (2), an employer shall pay an
employee who works in excess of forty-eight hours in a week, one and half times the
employee’s hourly rate of pay.
(2) An employer shall pay a watchperson or guard who works in excess of sixty hours a
week one and half times the watch person’s or guard’s hourly rate of pay.
(3) An employer shall pay an employee who works on a public holiday or on a weekly
rest day, where the public holiday or weekly rest day does not form part of the
employee’s normal working week, double the employee’s hourly rate of pay.
“Justifiable reason” includes—
(a) Seniority, experience or length of service;
(b) Merit;
(c) The quantity or quality of work performed; and
(d) Other criteria of a similar nature;

“Labour Advisory Committee” means the Committee constituted under section 99; which
states that,
“(1) There is constituted the Labour Advisory Committee.
(2) The Labour Advisory Committee shall be an ad hoc committee of the Tripartite
Consultative Labour Council.
(3) The Third Schedule applies to the Labour Advisory Committee.