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(1) Every employer who employs any worker whose wages or rates of wages are prescribed or paid pursuant to this Act shall keep a record (called the wages and time record) showing, in the case of each such worker,—
(a) The name of the worker:
(b) The worker's age, if under 20 years of age:
(c) The worker's postal address:
(d) The kind of work on which the worker is usually employed:
(e) The contract of service under which the worker is employed:
(f) The classification or designation of the worker according to which the worker is paid:
(g) The hours between which the worker is employed on each day, and the days of the worker's employment during each week:
(h) The wages paid to the worker each week and the method of calculation:
(i) Such other particulars as are prescribed.
(2) Every employer shall, upon request made at any reasonable time by a Labour Inspector, produce forthwith for inspection by that Labour Inspector every wages and time record that is, or at any time during the preceding 6 years was, in use under this Act in respect of any worker employed by that employer at any time in those 6 years.
(3) Where an employer keeps a wages and time record in accordance with the Employment Relations Act 2000, the employer is not required to keep a wages and time record under this Act in respect of the same matters.
Section 8A was inserted, as from 1 August 1987, by section 5 Minimum Wage Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 83).
Subsection (1)(e) and (f) were substituted, as from 15 May 1991, by section 5(1) Minimum Wage Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 27).
Subsection (2) was amended, as from 15 May 1991, by section 5(2) Minimum Wage Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 27) by substituting the words “a Labour Inspector”
and “that Labour Inspector”
for the words “an Inspector”
and “that Inspector”
respectively.
Subsection (3): the Labour Relations Act 1987 was repealed, as from 15 May 1991, by section 174 Employment Contracts Act 1991 (1991 No 22).
Subsection (3) was substituted, as from 2 October 2000, by section 240 Employment Relations Act 2000 (2000 No 24).