{"id":2994,"date":"2025-03-13T09:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T07:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2025-03-13T09:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T07:42:52","slug":"national-minimum-wage-earnings-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/national-minimum-wage-earnings-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE &amp; EARNINGS THRESHOLD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1006\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2.png 1006w, https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-768x268.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1006px) 100vw, 1006px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The increase in the <strong>National Minimum Wage (NMW) <\/strong>will apply uniformly across all sectors of labour, including domestic workers and farm workers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>National Minimum Wage <\/strong>will increase from R27,58 per hour to<strong> R28,79 <\/strong>per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Effective from 1 March 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>EARNINGS THRESHOLD<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Earnings Threshold (ET)<\/strong> is the annual income level that determines which employees are eligible for special protection of aspects such as ordinary hours of work, overtime, meal intervals, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Earnings Threshold (ET)<\/strong> will increase from R254,371.67 to <strong>R261,748.45<\/strong> annually.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This equals a monthly increase in the threshold value from R21,197.63 to <strong>R21,812.37.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Effective from 1 April 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE The increase in the National Minimum Wage (NMW) will apply uniformly across all sectors of labour, including domestic workers and farm workers.&nbsp; The National Minimum Wage will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law-at-work.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}