Some retail clothing stores in Kingstown are among a few businesses that are not complying with the minimum wage law.
Under the revised minimum wages, the wage for a store clerk now amounted to EC$1,200 per month.
Cashiers are now to be paid EC$1,275 per month and all full time check out attendants, office attendants, packers and cleaners are to be paid EC$1,200 per month or $50 per day.
And persons whose employers are refusing to comply and being encouraged to report the matter to the Labour Department.
The issue was raised by Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves on radio on April 17 when he said that he had received reports that not all employers were complying with the minimum wage law.
“And I am urging the tiny majority who are not complying to do so,” Gonsalves said.
According to the prime minister, he contacted the Labour Commissioner at the Labour Department after he had received reports that some people who sell haberdashery and clothing in the city, retail stores, were not complying with the new wages.
According to Gonsalves, he recently called someone after receiving information that they were guilty on non-compliance of the new minimum wages.
A private sector enterprise offering medical services, he said adding that when contacted, they denied the allegation saying that that was not the case.
“But I said check it out because I get the information,” Gonsalves said.
During the 2024 Budget address, Finance Minister Camillo Gonsalves announced that as of March 1, the minimum wage was going to increase for all daily and monthly paid workers in the country.
Under the revised minimum wage schedule, daily paid workers now earn a minimum of EC$50 per day with monthly paid earning a minimum of EC$1,000.