Section 24
Effect of the minimum wages order
of National Wages Consultative Council Act 2011
(1)
For the purpose of this section, “contract of service”
includes the collective agreement made under section 14 of the
Industrial Relations Act 1967 [Act 177].
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(2)
Where the rates of the basic wages agreed in a contract of service is lower than the minimum wages rates as specified in the minimum wages order, the rates shall be substituted with any rates not lower than the minimum wages rates as specified in the minimum wages order.
(3)
Where the rates of the basic wages agreed in a contract of service is higher than the minimum wages rates as specified in the minimum wages order, the rates shall not be reduced to any rates lower than the rates of the basic wages agreed in the contract of service.
(4)
Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing an employer and an employee from agreeing to any rates of the basic wages which are higher than the minimum wages rates as specified in the minimum wages order.