All employees earning the minimum wage rate as prescribed in Clause 4 Part ll of this agreement shall receive a wage increase of not less than six percent (6%).

Every employee for whom wages are prescribed in this Agreement and who, on the 01 February 2022, is employed by an employer in the Industry, shall while in the employ of the same employer and whether or not his actual rate of pay immediately prior to the said date was in excess of the rate prescribed for him in this Agreement, receive a wage increase of not less than five percent (5%) of the actual wage rate he was receiving immediately prior to the said date.

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Should the publication of this Collective Agreement amendment be delayed for any reason, any employers who have not granted the increase before the coming into operation of this Agreement shall grant an additional increment of one twelfth of the applicable increase for each month the increase was not granted: Provided the maximum number of months for the granting of such additional increment shall not exceed three months.

Provided also that in terms of this agreement any increases granted on or after January of each of the following years in respect of wage increases due on the 1st February of that year, may be off-set by the employer when calculating the guaranteed minimum increase.

[Clause 5 of Part ll substituted by section 11(1) of Notice No. R. 1585, GG45617, dated 10 December 2021]