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Impact date: 1 January 2026

The Workers’ Rights (Additional Remuneration) (2026) Regulations 2026 provide for the payment of additional remuneration to employees to compensate for increase in cost of living. The increase applies to every employee in employment on 1 January 2026.

The additional remuneration is payable as follows:

• full-time employees earning a monthly basic wage or salary up to MUR 50,000 are entitled to:
  • MUR 635 per month
• part-time employees, who earn a monthly basic wage or salary:
  • below MUR 17,110: 3.7% of the monthly basic wage or salary, rounded up to the next rupee
  • of not less than MUR 17,110 and not more than MUR 50,000: MUR 635 per month

For employees remunerated on a piece rate basis at the rates prescribed in the relevant laws and enactment, such rates are increased by 3.7%, but the amount paid as additional remuneration shall not exceed MUR 635 per month.

Impact date: 1 January 2026

Pursuant to the National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2026, the National Minimum Wage has been increased to MUR 17,745 for all full-time employees, employees employed in an export enterprise or for those employed in any other enterprise

For part-time employees, employed in an export enterprise or in any other enterprise, the national minimum wage has been increased as per the following formula:

• (MUR 17,745/195) x number of hours worked in a month x 1.10

It is important to note that the revised national minimum wage of MUR 17,745 is inclusive of the additional remuneration payable to a full-time employee under the Workers’ Rights (Additional Remuneration) Regulations 2026. Any agreement with an employee to forego their right to receive the minimum wage as per the regulations will be null and void.

Impact date: Date to be fixed by Proclamation.

The way in which the Board makes recommendations for the review of pay and the definition of a worker have been amended and are awaiting implementation. Once in force, the Board will have to make its recommendations to the Minister for the review of pay and grading structures on an occupational basis every five years and will have to take as baseline the rate of wages prescribed in the Wages Regulations in force.

For the purposes of section 28(f) of the ERAA, a worker means:

• a worker whose basic wage or salary is at a rate not exceeding MUR 30,000/- in a month or
• a person who has been awarded a bachelor’s degree, recognized by the Higher Education Commission

However, the definition of worker excludes:

• a public officer, a local government officer or a worker of a statutory body
• a job contractor
• a person taking part in a training scheme set up by the Government or under a joint public-private initiative with a view to facilitating the placement of jobseekers in gainful employment

Section 28(f)(6) of the ERAA has been revised given the new definition of a worker and states that “worker”, subject to subsection (1A), has the same meaning as in the Workers’ Rights Act 2019.