www.Droit-Afrique.com Category II: domestic worker tasked with the all routine interior works that can require two years practical experience: • assistant cook; • household gardener; Category III: domestic worker tasked with the all routine interior works and who has practical experience of over two years: • a cook who knows how to cook common dishes Category IV : domestic worker who does all internal household work including daily cooking or a qualified household cook tasked with preparing menus, preparing dishes, including baking. Category V: a qualified cook who corresponds to the definition of the 4th category, also tasked with all internal household work. Category VI: head cook who has people under his/her orders. Category VII: butler with reference Art.D.86-10.- An employer and an employee may not agree, for work done, on a salary lower than the rates spelt out herein after and which correspond to the categories defined in the previous article : Categories / Monthly Rate (special allowances, cost-of-living allowances and legal increases included) • Category I: 21,936 • Category II: 23,338 • Category III: 25,641 • Category IV: 28,947 • Category V: 32,346 • Category VI: 33,646 • Category VII: 35,049 Mali Employees shall also be entitled to the seniority bonus if after having been employed several times by the same employer, he/she reaches the duration of presence necessary for its attribution, on the condition that he/she did not collect the severance pay upon leaving his/her former employment. Contract suspension periods shall not interrupt seniority as they are considered to be periods of effective work. Art.D.86-12.-When housing and feeding are routinely given in kind to the domestic worker, the employment contract or letter shall have to specify whether or not these benefits are free. Should they be given for a fee, the employer may not make, on the worker's pay, a deduction that is higher than a sum equivalent to: • 2 and 1/2 half hours of the national minimum wage per day of work for food, • 1/2 hour of the same salary per day of work for housing. Unless the employee continues getting benefits in kind during his/her paid leave period, their value shall be considered to calculate the leave allowance. It shall eventually be considered to calculate compensation for notice and severance pay. Art.D.86-13.- In case, the worker travels on a regular basis for professional purposes outside the usual place of work, he/she shall be given a travel allowance calculated as follows : • 3 times the hourly rate of the national minimum wage, when he/she has to eat a main course meal outside the place of work during the trip; • 6 times the hourly rate of the national minimum wage, when he/she has to eat two main course meals outside the place of work during the trip; • 9 times the hourly rate of the national minimum wage, when he/she has to eat two main course meals and spend the night outside the place of work during the trip. The travel allowance shall not be due when the employer provides these services in kind. Art.D.86-14.- Excluding daily or workers paid when the work is over or occasional The salaries of part time workers and daily workers shall be calculated, considering the category in the ranking, depending on the time of work done as part of the time provided under the contract. Art.D.86-11.- A seniority bonus calculated on the base salary of the worker category shall be paid to domestic workers within the conditions provided for in article L.97 of the labour code. Implementing Decree of the Labour Code 6/29