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This will mean that employers paying a minimum wage of R800 a month, for urban areas, will contribute R8 a month and deduct R8 from the domestic's salary, resulting in a payment after three months of R48.
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An employer will have to contribute one percent of the domestic's monthly salary, and deduct another percent from the wage for the domestic worker's contribution.
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This will mean that employers paying a minimum wage of R800 a month, for urban areas, will contribute R8 a month and deduct R8 from the domestic's salary, resulting in a payment after three months of R48.
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The payslip must include the worker's name and occupation, the period for which payment is being made, wage and overtime rates, ordinary hours worked, overtime hours worked, the full wage, details of any other pay arising from the domestic's employment and details of any deductions.
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An employer would have to contribute one percent of the domestic's monthly salary, and deduct another percent from the wage for the domestic worker's contribution.
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I had long felt a curiosity to behold the inner workings of a domestic's life, and one day ventured to ask my friend's permission to enter her kitchen.
Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Mary E. Bradley Lane
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I wonder whether any lady in England has a maid who, to use that domestic's own expression, is capable of "giving satisfaction."
Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville
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The fair hands that have been employed on it are folded on a lap of corded silk representing the fashions of the nineties, and the grey-haired beauty (that once was) sits contemplative, wearing a cap of creamish lace, tastefully arranged, not unaware that in the entering lamp-light, and under the fire's soft glow of approval, she presents to her domestic's eye an improving picture of gentility.
Angels & Ministers Laurence Housman 1912
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A well-trained maid usually presents a telegram upon a tray, but Miss Morton must have been accustomed to Jemima's rough ways, or was too agitated to rebuke her; she tore open the missive, glanced at its contents, and with a scream of joy sank fainting into her domestic's faithful arms.
The Princess of the School Angela Brazil 1907
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Viennese dancer, he had lured her coachman into helpless intoxication, had invested himself in the domestic's livery, and had driven off with the lady in the darkness after the performance to the outskirts of the town.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896
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