Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)NoticesNational Bargaining Council for the Wood and Paper SectorExtension of Collective Agreement on Conditions of Service : Pulp and Paper Sector to Non-partiesPart B : Working Time and Wage7. Payment for Work on Sundays |
| 1. | Whenever an employee is required to work on a Sunday, an employer must pay an employee who works on a Sunday at double the employee's wage for each hour worked, unless the employee ordinarily works on a Sunday. |
| 2. | An employee who ordinarily works on a Sunday shall be paid one and one-half times the employee's wage for each hour worked |
| 3. | If an employee works less than the employee's ordinary shift on a Sunday and the payment that the employee is entitled to in terms of the above is less than the employee's ordinary daily wage, the employer must pay the employee's ordinary daily wage. |
| 4. | Notwithstanding the provisions above, upon a written notice to an employee, an employer may grant such an employee who works on a Sunday paid time -off equivalent to the difference in value between the pay received by the employee for working on the Sunday and the pay that he or she is entitled to in terms of the said sub clauses. |
| 5. | Any time worked on a Sunday by an employee who does not ordinarily work on a Sunday is not taken into account in calculating an employee's ordinary hours of work, but is taken in to account in calculating the overtime worked by the employee. |
| 6. | If a shift worked by an employee falls on a Sunday and another day, the whole shift is deemed to have been worked on the Sunday, unless the greater portion of the shift was worked on the other day, in which case the whole shift is deemed to have been worked on the other day. |