{"id":40111,"date":"2019-02-21T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T05:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=40111"},"modified":"2019-02-20T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T08:51:43","slug":"minimum-wage-defaulters-to-face-3-years-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/minimum-wage-defaulters-to-face-3-years-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Wage defaulters to face 3 years in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Moses Kyeyune.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Employers who fail to comply with the provisions of the minimum wage will face a 10 million fine or be sent to jail on conviction for three years.<\/p>\n<p>This, according to Workers&#8217; MP Arinaitwe Rwakajara is contained in the Minimum Wage Bill passed by Parliament yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Rwakajara, in a press conference at parliament this morning has emphasized that the bill is no threat to the investors and the basic pay will be reached by a tripartite arrangement comprising government representatives, workers representatives and\u00a0 employers unions.<\/p>\n<p>A minimum wage will be announced for every financial year by a minister responsible for labor, and default on the figures announced will attract the sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now awaits the president&#8217;s signature for it to become law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moses Kyeyune. Employers who fail to comply with the provisions of the minimum wage will face a 10 million fine or be sent to jail on conviction for three years. This, according to Workers&#8217; MP Arinaitwe Rwakajara is contained in the Minimum Wage Bill passed by Parliament yesterday. Rwakajara, in a press conference at parliament this morning has emphasized that the bill is no threat to the investors and the basic pay will be reached by a tripartite arrangement comprising government representatives, workers representatives and\u00a0 employers unions. A minimum wage will be announced for every financial year by a minister responsible for labor, and default on the figures announced will attract the sanctions. The bill now awaits the president&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}