Minimum Wages and Conditions of Employment (Truck and Bus Drivers) (Amendment) Order, 2021

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Jurisdiction: Zambia
Instrument: Statutory instrument
Citation: SI 93 of 2021
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Language: en
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This provision gives the short title of the Order and says it is to be read together with the 2020 principal Order. This provision amends the principal Order by revoking paragraph 11 and replacing it with new text. Employers must pay qualifying drivers a subsistence allowance when they spend the night away from home for the employer’s business. This provision amends the principal Order by revoking paragraph 14 and replacing it with new text. An employer must pay a risk allowance to a truck driver of dangerous goods or abnormal load: 15 ngwee per kilometre for local trips and 8 ngwee per kilometre for international trips.

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Provisions of Minimum Wages and Conditions of Employment (Truck and Bus Drivers) (Amendment) Order, 2021

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This Order may be cited as the Minimum Wages and
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision gives the short title of the Order and says it is to be read together with the 2020 principal Order.

1. This Order may be cited as the Minimum Wages and Conditions of Employment (Truck and Bus Drivers) (Amendment) Order, 2021, and shall be read as one with the Minimum Wages and Conditions of Employment (Truck and Bus Drivers) Order, 2020, in this Order referred to as the principal Order. Title SI. No. 106 of 2020
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The principal Order is amended by the revocation of
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends the principal Order by revoking paragraph 11 and replacing it with new text.

2. The principal Order is amended by the revocation of paragraph 11 and the substitution therefor of the following:
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(1) An employer shall pay a driver who spends a night
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AI-assisted research summary: Employers must pay qualifying drivers a subsistence allowance when they spend the night away from home for the employer’s business.

11. (1) An employer shall pay a driver who spends a night away from home to attend to any business of the employer, a subsistence allowance of not less than three hundred kwacha per night where— Revocation and replacement of paragraph 11 (a) the employer does not provide, or pay for accommodation for the driver while on duty; or Subsistence allowance for local trip (b) in the case of a truck driver, the truck does not have a sleeping cabin. (2) Despite sub-paragraph (1), an employer shall, where the truck has a sleeping cabin, pay a truck driver who spends a night away from home to attend to any business of the employer a subsistence allowance of one hundred kwacha per night. Copies of this Statutory Instrument can be obtained from the Government Printer, P.O. Box 30136, 10101 Lusaka. Price K4.00 each. 742 Statutory Instruments 31st December, 2021 Revocation and replacement of paragraph 14 Risk allowance Revocation and replacement of paragraph 15 Cross border subsistence allowance
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The principal Order is amended by the revocation of
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends the principal Order by revoking paragraph 14 and replacing it with new text.

3. The principal Order is amended by the revocation of paragraph 14 and the substitution therefor of the following:
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An employer shall pay a truck driver of dangerous
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AI-assisted research summary: An employer must pay a risk allowance to a truck driver of dangerous goods or abnormal load: 15 ngwee per kilometre for local trips and 8 ngwee per kilometre for international trips.

14. An employer shall pay a truck driver of dangerous goods or abnormal load a risk allowance of fifteen ngwee per kilometre for a local trip and eight ngwee per kilometre for an international trip, respectively.
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AI-assisted research summary: This section amends the principal Order by revoking paragraph 15 and replacing it with new wording that follows.

4. The principal Order is amended by the revocation of paragraph 15 and the substitution therefor of the following:
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(1) An employer shall pay a driver who undertakes
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AI-assisted research summary: Employers must pay truck drivers a per-night subsistence allowance for international trips, with different amounts depending on whether the truck has a sleeping cabin.

15. (1) An employer shall pay a driver who undertakes an international trip, a cross border subsistence allowance of not less than twenty-five United States dollars per night where the truck has no sleeping cabin, or the employer has not provided or paid for accommodation. (2) Despite sub-paragraph (1), an employer shall, where a truck has a sleeping cabin, pay a truck driver who undertakes an international trip a subsistence allowance of fifteen United States dollars per night. LUSAKA 22nd December, 2021 [DL/64/9/9] B. M. TAMBATAMBA, Minister of Labour and Social Security

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