| 9.1 | Council levies shall be payable to the Council at the prescribed rates by the employer and employee when more than 1 hour or more wages per week are payable to an employee. To determine the number of hours worked by the employee, the calculation must include the ordinary hours worked by the employee as well as the hours which would ordinarily have been worked by the employee on: |
| 9.1.1 | paid public holidays; |
| 9.1.2 | trade union representative leave days; |
| 9.1.3 | the first 3 days per annum of paid sick leave days on condition that an acceptable medical certificate is presented by the employee to his employer and that such sick leave days do not fall on a Monday or a Friday or on the day before or after a public holiday; and |
| 9.1.4 | family responsibility leave days for the first 2 days only which are related to the death of an employee’s spouse, life partner, employee’s parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling and upon submission of the relevant death certificate by the employee to his employer. |
| 9.2 | The Council levies payable to the Council shall amount to: |
| 9.2.1 | From the first full pay week of May 2026 (As gazetted by the Minister under Government Gazette 53707 under Notice R.6853 of 21 November 2025) |
R16-45 per week per employee payable by the employer and R16-45 per week payable by the employee.
| 9.2.2 | Whenever a General Worker or any other employee earns a wage rate of up to and including R30-65 per hour, the employee will be exempted from paying Council Levies for the duration of this Agreement. An employer of such employee shall therefore not deduct and pay over to the Council, the Council Levies for such employee, for the duration of this Agreement. |
[Addendum 1, Clause 9(9.2) substituted by section 3(2) of Notice No. R. 7330 of GG54436, dated 31 March 2026]
