New Statutory Minimum Wage rate of $43.1 per hour works today
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The Statutory Minimum Wage (SMW) rate has actually been raised from $42.1 per hour to $43.1 with result from today (May 1).
According to the Minimum Wage Ordinance (MWO), workers are secured by the SMW whether they are monthly-rated, daily-rated, hourly-rated, piece-rated, long-term, casual, full-time or part-time, and so on, and despite whether they are used under a constant agreement as specified in the Employment Ordinance (EO). The SMW is not appropriate to live-in domestic employees (regardless of their sex, race and citizenship), trainee interns and work experience trainees as defined in the MWO, and individuals to whom the EO does not use.
The SMW likewise safeguards workers with impairments. An unique plan is supplied under the MWO for workers with impairments to select a performance evaluation to identify whether they need to be compensated at no less than the SMW or at a rate commensurate with their performance. For those staff members with impairments who have actually picked this unique plan, their companies need to pay incomes of not less than the quantity computed according to the brand-new SMW rate and the degree of efficiency evaluated.
In addition, the month-to-month financial cap on the requirement for companies to tape-record the overall variety of hours worked by workers in a wage duration under the EO has actually been raised from $17,200 to $17,600 each month with result from today in tandem with the application of the brand-new SMW rate. When earnings payable to a worker in regard of a wage duration are less than $17,600 each month, the company is needed to keep a record of the overall variety of hours worked by the staff member because wage duration.
Queries about the SMW can be made through the 24-hour query hotline at 2717 1771 (dealt with by 1823) and throughout workplace hours at branch workplaces of the Labour Relations Division of the Labour Department (LD). For information of the SMW, please check out the LD’s homepage (www.labour.gov.hk).