Sessional Paper No. 21 of 1954 on the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report of the Committee on African Wages

Abstract

His Excellency the Governor appointed a Committee, to consider and report upon the adequacy of African cash wages and other conditions and benefits of employment under General Notice No. 841, published in the Official Gazette of the 14th April, 1953. The main issues of concern were as follows: To address the existing terms and conditions of employment so as to provide African workers with greater incentives to industry, efficiency and increased output; To present a method of calculating the statutory minimum wage in urban areas and to assess whether all or any of the findings of the Committee should be extended to areas outside municipalities and towns.