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Minimum Wage increase to take effect October 1, 2016- Hon Pickering
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Explaining that the delay in the implementation of the recommended Minimum Wage of $6.00 per hour is to allow the business community to ‘implement’ the National Health Insurance (NHI), Minister for Natural Resources and Labour, Dr The Hon Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) has announced that the minimum wage will take effect on October 1, 2016.
Confusion: minimum wage still $4.00 in the VI; no laws to increase to $6.00
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Confusion and misinformation continue to circulate about the Virgin Islands minimum wage. As of today January 12, 2016 the minimum wage to be paid by law in the British Overseas Territory of the Virgin Islands (VI) remains at $4.00 an hour and not $6.00.