50Piecework rates

### 50 Piecework rates > > (1)  [*\[Section 50 Subsection (1) amended by No. 18 of 1997, s. 22, Applied:28 Jun 1997\]*](/view/html/inforce/1997-06-28/act-1997-018#GS22@Hpa@EN) Subject to [subsection (2)](#GS50@Gs2@EN) , where, in respect of any work, wages rates are fixed by an award or a registered agreement and no piecework rates are so fixed, a person shall not, directly or indirectly, pay piecework rates, or authorize or permit piecework rates to be paid, in respect of that work. > > > (2)  [*\[Section 50 Subsection (2) amended by No. 18 of 1997, s. 22, Applied:28 Jun 1997\]*](/view/html/inforce/1997-06-28/act-1997-018#GS22@Hpb@EN) Where, by an award or a registered agreement, piecework rates only are fixed in respect of any work, a person shall not, directly or indirectly, pay wages rates, or authorize or permit wages rates to be paid, in respect of that work. > > > (3)  [*\[Section 50 Subsection (3) amended by No. 18 of 1997, s. 22, Applied:28 Jun 1997\]*](/view/html/inforce/1997-06-28/act-1997-018#GS22@Hpc@EN) If an award or a registered agreement fixes wages rates in respect of any work but permits piecework rates to be fixed for that work, an employee employed at piecework rates on that work is entitled to receive remuneration for that work at piecework rates based on the earnings of an average worker working at that work at the wages rates so fixed.