Gazette May 30, 2025 Part A VOL. CLX No. 53 with S.I #55

May 30, 2025 | Part A, Statutory Instruments (SI's)

S.I. 2025 No. 55: Minimum Wage (National and Sectoral Minimum Wage) Order, 2025.

30th May, 2025

S.I. 2025 No. 55
Minimum Wage Act, 2017 (Act 2017–4)

MINIMUM WAGE (NATIONAL AND SECTORAL MINIMUM WAGE) ORDER, 2025
The Minister, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 6(1) of the Minimum Wage Act, 2017, makes the following Order:

  1. This Order may be cited as the Minimum Wage (National and Sectoral Minimum Wage) Order, 2025.
  2. The national minimum wage is set out in the First Schedule.
  3. The minimum sectoral wage for security guards is set out in the Second Schedule.
  4. The Minimum Wage (National and Sectoral Minimum Wage) Order, 2021 (S.I. 2021 No. 26) is revoked.
  5. This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of June, 2025.

S.I. 2025 No. 55
FIRST SCHEDULE

NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE
Minimum Time Rates
PART I
General Minimum Wage Rates

  1. The minimum rate of wages payable weekly for a 40 hour workweek
  2. The minimum rate of wages payable daily, for an 8 hour workday where an employee is not employed on a weekly basis
  3. The minimum rate of wages payable hourly where an employee is not employed on a weekly or daily basis

PART II

Minimum Overtime Rates

  1. The minimum overtime rate of wages payable for ordinary working days
  2. The minimum overtime rate of wages for Public Holidays

(Paragraph 2)

National Minimum
Rate of Pay

$

420.00 per week
84.00 per day
10.50 per hour
time and one half the employee’s ordinary rate
twice as much as the employee’s ordinary rate
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SECOND SCHEDULE

(Paragraph 3)

SECTORAL MINIMUM WAGE FOR SECURITY GUARDS

Minimum Time Rates
PART I

General Minimum Wage Rates

  1. The minimum rate of wages payable hourly
  2. For the avoidance of doubt, this Order does not affect the normal working hours of Security Guards.

PART II

Minimum Overtime Rates

  1. The minimum overtime rate of wages payable for ordinary working days
  2. The minimum overtime rate of wages for Public Holidays

Made by the Minister this 30th day of May, 2025.
COLIN JORDAN Minister responsible for Labour
Sectoral Minimum Rate of Pay for Security Guards
$
11.43 per hour
time and one half the employee’s ordinary rate
twice as much as the employee’s ordinary rate

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