Mali www.Droi tAfrique.comb • 7° the total net remuneration. The minimum rates for wages as well as remuneration for piecework shall be displayed at the employer's office and on the premises where workers are paid. Art.A.109.4.- This notice shall be drafted using ink or a process that produces indelible writing. It shall not be compulsory to sign or annotate the individual payslip. Art.A.109.5.- Except the labour inspector grants an individual exemption, salary payments shall be attested to through the handover to the employee, during payment, of a payslip, even in case the employee is hired for a few hours or for one day and is paid on that day. Payslips shall compulsorily be individual. It shall be prohibited to enter collective information in payslips and payment records. Art.A.109.6.- Information entered in the payslip shall compulsorily be reproduced every time salaries are paid, on a record known as "payment register ". It shall also contain statements regarding absences based on their respective causes (sickness, work-related accident, absences whether authorised or not). Art.A.109.7.-The payment register shall be kept based on dates, without blanks or deletions, additions or side notes. It shall be put at the disposal of labour inspectors or their representatives and kept for a five year period as from the last entries. Art.A.109.8.- In companies with many institutions, the payment register shall be kept at the head office of each institution. However, the company manager or his/her representative may, with approval from the competent labour inspector, keep the record of all the institutions cited in the same locality or region, when their size does not warrant keeping a separate register for each of the institutions. In this case, the payslip shall be drawn up in two copies in accordance with the provisions of article A.109-10 of this chapter. One copy shall be given to the employee. The second copy shall be kept at the institution for presentation when requested by the labour inspector. Art.A.109.9.- Companies that prepare summary financial statements, during each payout, on separates sheets containing information contained in the payslip, shall be authorised to state, in the payment register, only information referring to the said statements or leaves, on the condition that they are sufficiently individualised to make it possible to write out information safely. The same tolerance shall be extended, under the same conditions, to companies that draw up a double payslip, one of which is given to the relevant party and the other is kept by the employer. Art.A.109-10.- When the payslip is stripped from a counterfoil book whose fixed leaves are numbered consecutively and whose first and last pages have been properly initialled, this counterfoil book shall serve as the payment register. Art.A.109.11.- Upon a written request sent to the competent labour inspector, a written authorisation suspending the obligation to keep a payment register and issue payslips shall be granted temporarily and revocably, to farm businesses employing less than ten workers. When, owing to the exceptions or tolerances provided for herein above, the payment register does not contain information on absences, a special record of this information, following their causes as provided for in article A.109.6, must be kept in a special register, to be presented whenever requested by the labour inspector. Art.A.109-12.- Whoever hires a domestic worker shall not be required to keep a payment register. However, such a person must issue a payslip to this worker. Art.A.109-13.- The penalties spelt out for non compliance with the provisions mentioned above shall be those provided for in article L.319 sub paragraph of the Mali Labour Code. Chapter 4 - Working Hours Section 1 –General Rules Implementing Decree of the Labour Code 3/11