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Employment Ordinance

Commencement: 22nd April 1966

LAWS OF THE GILBERT ISLANDS
REVISED EDITION 1977

CHAPTER 30

EMPLOYMENT

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Term of contract

PART II
ADMINISTRATION

4. Commissioner of Labour and other officers
5. Powers of Commissioner and Health Officer to enter places of employment, to interrogate, etc.
6. Returns by employers, inspection of documents, etc.
7. Power of summons and institution of proceedings
8. Offences

PART III
WAGES AND HOURS OF WORK

9. Liability of worker for advances and loans
10. Days and hours of work, and overtime rates, may be specified by Commissioner, etc.
11. Task work
12. Records concerning workers
13. Period for which wages payable
14. Payment of wages
15. Payment in stores, etc., prohibited
16. Wages to be paid in legal tender
17. Contracts to pay wages otherwise than in legal tender illegal
18. Stipulation as to place and manner of spending wages illegal
19. Worker's right to recover
20. Interest on advances forbidden
21. Certain deductions from wages may be made
22. Remuneration other than wages
23. Employer's shop
24. Power of employer to exempt himself if other person proved actual offender and proceedings against such a person in first instance
25. Penalties

PART IV
MINIMUM WAGE

26. Interpretation
27. Fixing of minimum wage
28. Penalty for not paying wages in accordance with minimum rate
29. Miscellaneous provisions with regard to legal proceedings
30. Offence by agent
31. Employers not to receive premium where minimum rates in force
32. Prevention of evasion
33. Exemption

PART V
RECRUITING OF WORKERS

34. Interpretation
35. Recruiting of workers to be under licence
36. Matters to be considered before granting licence
37. Restriction on recruitment
38. Application for recruiting licence
39. Conditions of recruiting licence
40. Term of licence
41. Professional recruiters
42. Cancellation of licence
43. Persons under the age of 18 not to be recruited
44. Provisions relating to the family of recruit
45. Chiefs and public officers not to recruit or assist recruiting
46. Licensees' assistants to obtain a permit
47. Remuneration of licensees' agents
48. Licensees to keep records
49. Examination of recruits
50. Recruiter to defray expenses of journey, etc.
51. Return to home of recruit and his family in certain circumstances
52. Advances against wages
53. Penalty

PART VI
WRITTEN CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT

54. Interpretation