kThe term “Wages” means all economic benefits including salary, any bonus, remuneration for overtime work, holiday or leave, termination of employment, or other additional remuneration payable under the terms of employment. Every employer is responsible for the payment of compensation to workers employed by him. In the case where the pay of a worker employee by a contractor is not pay by the contractor. The wages must be pay by the employer of the establishment. The maximum pay period is one month. The wages of every worker must be pay before the expiry of the seventh working day. After the last day of the wage period in respect of which the wages are payable.
Where the employment of a worker is terminate by retirement or by the employer, whether by way of retrenchment, discharge, removal, dismissal, or otherwise, the compensation payable to him must be pay before the expiry of the 30th working day from the day on which his employment is so terminate. Wages have to be pay in legal tender, through cheque and in some cases (given the requirement of the workers). Tthrough an electronic transfer in favor of the bank account of the worker or through any other digital medium. Compensations must be pay on a working day. No deduction can be make from the wages of a worker except those authorise by the Labour Act.
