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i. Formalities
Every employer in the BVI is required to provide employees with a written statement setting
forth the employee’s working conditions which includes:
1. the general responsibilities and related duties for which the employee is being hired;
2. the regular hours of work and rest periods;
3. the starting salary;
4. the term of employment if other than indefinite;
5. the probationary period (if any); and
6. the employee’s leave and vacation privileges.
ii. Probationary Period
A new employee’s probationary period may not exceed 4 months unless the employee has the
rank of supervisor or above, in which case the probationary period may not exceed 6 months.
iii. Minimum Wage
The minimum basic wage payable for employment in the BVI is US$4.00 per hour. The
minimum wage payable to students enrolled in secondary school is US$3.00 per hour.
iv. Sick Leave
An employee (who has been employed for a continuous period of not less than four months), is
entitled to a minimum of at least 12 sick days per year, during which an employee would receive
the same basic wage or salary as if they had worked those days. However, any social security
benefits received by the employee for illness or other physical incapacitation for work for those
days may be deducted from the basic wage payable to the employee by the employer.
v. Vacation
Employers must grant employees with less than ten years of service at least one vacation day per
month (after they have successfully passed their probationary period, if any) during which an
employee would receive the same basic wage or salary as if they had worked that day. Such
vacation leave is in addition to, and does not include, any public holiday or sick leave. An
agreement between an employer and an employee by which the employee would forego the
taking of earned vacation leave is not to be deemed to deny the employee the right to vacation
leave at a future time to be mutually agreed between the employer and the employee. Any
employee whose employment is terminated for any reason shall receive in respect of every day of
vacation leave due to them the remuneration for each such day.
vi. Public Holidays
Where an employee does not work on a public holiday, employees are to be paid the basic wage
they would have received for work performed on that day had it not been a public holiday
provided that the employee worked their scheduled workday immediately before and after the
public holiday and the public holiday did not fall on one of the employee’s scheduled workdays.