Tag: Lemuel Hurlston
Data suggests Cayman can sustain $10 minimum wage
(CNS): Pressure from the business community led the Minimum Wage Advisory Committee (MWAC) to recommend an increase to the national basic pay of just CI$2.75 per hour, rising from the current meagre CI$6 to $8.75 per hour, even though their research and data from the Economics and Statistics Office indicated that businesses could manage an […]
Enforcement of new basic wage will pose challenge
(CNS): Compliance and enforcement will present a “major, major challenge” for the agency responsible when the new minimum wage is rolled out, the body created to review the existing regime has warned. The chairperson of the Minimum Wage Advisory Committee, Lemuel Hurlston, said that he and his members suspect that the labour department is not […]
Tip system raises concern for basic wage earners
(CNS): Some of Cayman’s lowest-paid workers have complained that employers using gratuities to top up wages to conform with the national minimum wage of $6 per hour are misusing the system. Hospitality employers, such as hotels and restaurants, are allowed to pay workers $4.50 per hour if they also receive at least $1.50 per hour […]
Minimum wage must be ‘realistic’, says MWAC chair
(CNS): Lemuel Hurlston, the chair of the minimum wage committee has said the recommendations that will be made to government in relation to the mandatory basic pay will be realistic. He told CNS this week that there is capacity in the business community for a notable increase given how inadequate the current rate is.
Lowest paid may get lower basic wage
(CNS): The chairman of the Minimum Wage Advisory Committee, Lemuel Hurlston, has indicated that the mandatory basic hourly rate, which hasn’t changed for seven years, obviously needs to be increased. But he said that the committee may recommend two different new rates, a system that domestic workers and gardeners could benefit from.
Minimum wage report expected end of June
(CNS): It is almost seven years since a national minimum wage of CI$6 per hour was introduced in the Cayman Islands when inflation was running at -2.8%. Since then, that basic rate has not been increased, despite the runaway inflation over recent years. The newly formed Minimum Wage Advisory Committee held its first meeting just […]
