Minimum wage, is it a legal right?

[schuits]

Does everyone being employed have a right to minimum wage?

Why I'm asking. Our daughter of 19 years is being asked to work in her biological father's plumbing shop.
Work experience is a good thing. However he's offering her something like R2400 for a months work, which in my opinion is just taking advantage right?

 

[ArmatageShanks]

Yes

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

sue him

 

[R4ziel]

Never do business with family!

 

[ArmatageShanks]

Never do business with family!

^This

 

[Venomous]

Does everyone being employed have a right to minimum wage?

Why I'm asking. Our daughter of 19 years is being asked to work in her biological father's plumbing shop.
Work experience is a good thing. However he's offering her something like R2400 for a months work, which in my opinion is just taking advantage right?

Domestic cleaners earn more than that in a month.

The leaat he legally needs to do is pay min wage (which is going up 1 March) and obviously he needs to pay SARS what SARS demands

 

[KleinBoontjie]

sue him

Sue for a job offer? She hasn't worked yet. Also, is it a full day/week job? Difficult to have a opinion, without all the facts.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Sue for a job offer? She hasn't worked yet. Also, is it a full day/week job? Difficult to have a opinion, without all the facts.

labour laws are very strict with any permanent position, even domestics have huge rights for anything over 20hrs a week (i think that was the last official number).
But i would still walk away if i was her.
R2400 per month and you are working for family? Silly

 

[schuits]

Thanks for the responses so far.
From what I gather it's about 9 hours a day, 5-7 days a week.
I try not to get involved with my wife's ex, but I can at least offer my daughter some advice.

 

[Venomous]

Just checked.
New minimum wage is R20. 76 per hour.

All the typical laws of x hours is a work week and after that over time applies.

There is an article on businesstech that gives info on the new rates. Posted yesterday

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

plus will the boss be paying UIF should she lose her job later? Probably not
too risky
walk away

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

Please post pics of said daughter so we can make an informed opinion of how much she deserves.

Thanks

 

[R4ziel]

Please post pics of said daughter so we can make an informed opinion of how much she deserves.

Thanks

I second this notion

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

Does everyone being employed have a right to minimum wage?

Why I'm asking. Our daughter of 19 years is being asked to work in her biological father's plumbing shop.
Work experience is a good thing. However he's offering her something like R2400 for a months work, which in my opinion is just taking advantage right?

What's the maintenance arrangement? If he's still paying maintenance as well then his offer might be based on that.

 

[Smokey888]

I know about people in "the platteland" earning less than that for working in a shop/store

 

[AlmightyBender]

That is slave labor where the slave master has outsourced the housing and transport of the slaves to the slaves.

This will never end well which will result in no reference for that experience at the end of the day. Not worth it.

 

[joker08]

Does everyone being employed have a right to minimum wage?

Why I'm asking. Our daughter of 19 years is being asked to work in her biological father's plumbing shop.
Work experience is a good thing. However he's offering her something like R2400 for a months work, which in my opinion is just taking advantage right?

Maybe he is just being nice and offering a job in his shop even though he doesn't need an additional employee.
Maybe that's all he can afford to offer or has no money at all and just offering what he can because she is his daughter.
Just walk away if you dont like it, plenty of jobs available for 19 year olds with no experience.

 

[schuits]

Maybe he is just being nice and offering a job in his shop even though he doesn't need an additional employee.
Maybe that's all he can afford to offer or has no money at all and just offering what he can because she is his daughter.
Just walk away if you dont like it, plenty of jobs available for 19 year olds with no experience.

Ye no, he doesn't do things to be "nice".
He's coercing her into this job, and I'm just trying to find valid arguments to present to her why this isn't a good idea.
Normally I don't get involved.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Maybe he is just being nice and offering a job in his shop even though he doesn't need an additional employee.
Maybe that's all he can afford to offer or has no money at all and just offering what he can because she is his daughter.
Just walk away if you dont like it, plenty of jobs available for 19 year olds with no experience.

Its irrelevant if he's being nice.. if he offers her a job, he has to pay minimum wage at least..

 

[joker08]

Its irrelevant if he's being nice.. if he offers her a job, he has to pay minimum wage at least..

like someone pointed out earlier, the working hours or the nature of work are not mentioned. So we dont know exactly what "a months work" is.
But clearly we think differently, for me some job is better than no job. even if it means working for less money than market standards or minimum wages in this case.