The
"monthly earnings*" is to be taken as the earnings for the month immediately
preceding the date of the accident, or the average monthly earnings for the previous
12 months of employment (or any lesser period if the employee has not been so
long employed), whichever calculation is more favourable to the employee. If
the employee in question is daily rated, and that he actually worked for 19 days
in the month immediately preceding the date of the accident, the employee's earnings
for the one month immediately preceding the date of the accident will be: Earnings
of the employee for the month immediately preceding the date of the accident =
daily wages x 19 days Suppose that the employee had only worked for the
employer for 4 months before the date of the accident, the average monthly earnings
of the employee in the less-than-12-month period is as follows : Average
monthly earnings
of the employee in the less-
than-12-month employment
| = | actual total earnings of the
employee
in the past 4 months
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