Teachers, other sectors

4.5% for security guards

MANZINI – The minimum wage for a security guard other than a supervisor with not more than three months service, will now be E74.88 per shift.

This is courtesy of the 4.5 per cent increment on the minimum wage for this sector as published in Legal Notice No.249 of 2022. The most earning a employee in the shift system will be a clerk who shall be paid a minimum of E117.81 per shift which is the same amount a patrol supervisor Grade I will get per shift. A cash in transit security driver, who until the publication of this schedule was the most paid per shift at a minimum of E112.37 per shift, shall now be paid E117.43 per shift.

According to the Regulation of Wages (Security Services Industry) Order, 2022, a security guard with more than three months service who was paid E92.14 per shift, will now be remunerated E 96.29 per shift.

Watchmen up by 30c/hr

MANZINI – Watchmen guarding schools, which have become soft targets for arson attacks, had their minimum wage reviewed by 30 cents per hour.

This is according to Legal Notice No. 250 of 2022, which reviewed the remuneration of support employees in schools and educational institutions. This sector was awarded an increment of 6.5 per cent on their minimum wage while those earning above it were granted an increment of three per cent. The Regulation of Wages Order, 2022 states that the remuneration of these personnel shall be hourly and an accounts officer will now earn a minimum of E23.78 which is the same pay for boarding master or matron and also the computer teacher.

10% for construction

MANZINI – The minimum wage in the building and construction industry was reviewed by

10 per cent.This will see the watchman supervisor earning E92.43 per shift while the least paid will be a typist who shall now have a minimum wage of E9.68 per shift.

Nothing to celebrate - TUCOSWA

MANZINI – There is nothing to celebrate on the increment of wages, according to the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA). Secretary General of TUCOSWA Mduduzi Gina said they were disappointed that the increment was introduced yesterday, as it ought to have been effected at the beginning of the year.

He said the employees, due to the delay in implementation, were exploited as they were not remunerated what their representatives had agreed on. Gina said COVID-19 was submitted as the reason the increments could not be implemented as employers were struggling.