Minister to decide on minimum wage

Members of Rwanda’s lower chamber of Parliament have passed a new labour law that has left it to the Ministry of Labour to set up a minimum wage through a ministerial order, notes a report in The New Times. Though several legislators had advised the Minister to set out the minimum in the the new law, they ended up bowing to government's wish to set the minimum wage after enactment through a ministerial order. Parliament’s Standing Committee on Social Affairs chairperson, Amiel Ngabo Semahundo, said a ministerial order would decide a minimum wage according to work sectors. He said the government had given reassurance that a minimum wage would be determined as soon as the new labour law was enacted.