With effect from (Monday 1 July 2013) Minister of Labour Mildred Oliphant, acting in accordance with Section 6(3) of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, increased the annual earnings threshold to R193 805.00 from the previous figure of R183 008.00.
“The earnings threshold is significant as employees who earn in excess of the threshold (now R16 150.41 gross per month) are excluded from the protection offered by certain sections of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA).
“These sections govern respectively limiting ordinary hours of work to 45 hours per week (section 9), to payment for any overtime worked in excess of 45 hours (section 10), limitations on a compressed working week (s11), provisions which allow for the averaging of a work week (s12), the mandatory provision of a meal interval of not less than 30 minutes for employees who work for longer than 5 hours (s14), provisions which allow for certain mandatory minimum daily and weekly rest periods (s15), an employee’s entitlement to increased pay for work on Sundays (s16), the payment of a mandatory allowance for employees who engage in night work (s17(2)), and increased pay for employees who work on public holidays. Employees who earn in excess of the threshold are not entitled to the minimum protections contained in these sections of the BCEA,”

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