minimum wages act

2. THE MINIMUM WAGES ACT 1948
The act empowers the appropriate
government for fixation of minimum wages in
employments enumerated in the schedule of
the act
The fixation of minimum of wages
relates to the industries where sweated labour
is most prevalent or where there is inevitable
chance of exploitation

3. APPLICABLITY OF THE ACT
 Applicable to whole India
 Central government Act of 1948 and rules
made there will be applicable and the
directions given in the Act should be
followed.
 As per the Central Government Act, the
State Governments have been empowered
to add schedules or to give directions

4. SALIENT FEATURES
 The act requires that wages shall be paid in
cash.
 The act provides the fixation of minimum time
rate, piece rate, overtime rate, etc of wages.
 The act empowers the appropriate government
to fix the number of hours of work per day , to
provide for a weekly holiday
 The establishments recovered by this act are
required to maintain registers and records in
the prescribed manner

5.  The provision is also made in the Act for
dealing with complaints made for violation of
the provisions of the Act and for imposing
penalties for offences committed under the
Act
 It lays down that the cost of living allowances
and the cash of essential commodities at
concessional rates shall be computed by the
Union Territories

6. OBJECTIVES OF THE ACT
 To provide minimum wages to the workers
working in organized sector
 To stop exploitation of the workers
 To empower the Government to take steps
for fixing minimum wages and to revising it
in a timely manner
 To apply this law on most of the sections in
organized sectors

7. WHO ARE ELIGIBLE ?
 Permanent employees
 Contract employees
 casual employees
 People on probation get fixed pay
instead of minimum wages
 Trainees get stipend and not minimum
wages

10. DEFINITIONS
 Employer sec 2 (e):-
The owner or the occupier of the factory.
The legal representative of a deceased
owner .
The person who has the ultimate control
over
the affairs of the establishment .
 Scheduled employment sec 2 (g):-
it means an employment specified in the
schedule.

11. DEFINITIONS
 Cost of living index number sec 2(d):- in
relation to employees in any scheduled
employment in respect of which minimum
rates of wages have been fixed means the
index number ascertained & declared by
the competent authority by notification I the
official gazette to be the cost of living index
number applicable to employees in such
employment

12. SEC 3 FIXATION OF MINIMUM RATES OF WAGES
 Appropriate government shall be empowered
to fix the minimum rates of wages
 It shall fix the minimum rates of wages
payable to employees
 Appropriate government shall review the
minimum rates of wages to fix & revise the
minimum rates ,if necessary ,at such
intervals as it may think fit.

14. ADVISORY BOARD SEC 7 CENTRAL ADVISORY
BOARD SEC 8
 Appropriate government
appoint an advisory board
for:-
co-ordinating the work
committees & sub-
committees
advising the in the matter
of
fixing & revising minimum
rates of wages
 Besides the advisory board
may devise the procedure
to be adopted for
discharging its functions
 Central government
appoint a central advisory
board for:-
advising the central &
state
government in the matters
fixation & revision of
minimum rates of wages
 The chairman of the central
board shall be one of the
independent persons and
shall be appointed by the
central government

20. OFFENCE
 Any employer who had violated the
provisions of the Act will be treated as he had
made an offence and Rs.500 fine will be
collected from the employer.
 No courts shall take any case directly
 The appropriate authority will pass orders for
any claims made by employee against
employer