Section 76 - Remuneration of temporary and casual workers

(1) Subject to this section, the minimum remuneration of a temporary worker or a casual worker shall be determined as follows:

(a) where a temporary worker or a casual worker is required to work on week-days only, the minimum monthly remuneration is the amount represented by the worker's daily wage multiplied by twenty-seven;

(b) where a temporary worker or a casual worker is required to work every day in the week, the minimum monthly remuneration is the amount represented by three hundred and sixty-five times his daily wage divided by twelve.

(2) A temporary worker or a casual worker referred to in subsection (1)(a) is not entitled to 1/27 of his or her minimum monthly remuneration as specified in that paragraph for each day the worker is absent from work during the month.

(3) A temporary worker or a casual worker referred to in subsection (1)(b) is not entitled to a twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth or thirty-first part of his or her minimum remuneration as specified in that paragraph for each day the worker is absent from work during the month, depending on whether the month consists of twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty or thirty-one days.

(4) An employer shall pay a temporary worker or a casual worker the full minimum remuneration for each day on which the worker attends work, whether or not wet weather prevents the worker from carrying on his or her normal work and whether it is possible or not, to arrange alternative work for the worker on such a day.

(5) A temporary worker or a casual worker is entitled to be paid for overtime work by his or her employer in accordance with section 35.