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PRESENTATION BY: Pooja Tandon,13 Vishnupriya Jutti,03 Anamika Mehta,07 Sejal Mehta,06 Pooja Navale,18 Priyanka Salve,10
To provide minimum wages to the workers working in organized sector(scheduled employment) To stop exploitation of the workers To empower the government to take steps for fixing minimum wages and to revise this wages within a period of five years. To provide for appointment of Advisory Committees & Advisory Boards, having equal representatives of employers and workers.
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employees. y The Act will not apply to employees in any undertaking owned by the Central Govt. or of Federal railway, except with the consent of the Central Govt. Thus, the wages have to be statutorily paid.
RAILWAY WORKERS
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Who is an employee?
y EMPLOYEE is anyone
(1) Employed for Hire or Reward (2) To do skilled or unskilled work (3) Manual or Clerical (4) JobWorker (5) Any person declared by the appropriate Government as Employee but, does not include any member of armed forces
What is wages?
section 2(h) y Wages means all remuneration capable of being expressed in terms of money. It includes house rent allowance but does not include value of house accommodation, supply of light, water, medical attendance Value of any other amenity provided, if excluded by Government order Contribution to pension fund or provident fund or insurance Traveling allowance special expenses incurred by the nature of employment Gratuity payable on discharge.
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minimum wages payable to employees employed in an employment specified in part I & II of the Schedule.
2.The rate can be fixed on a. time work basis b. piece work basis c. guaranteed rate basis when rate is fixed on piece work basis and d. overtime rate basis.
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employment y adults, adolescents, children and apprentices y Different localities. 4. Minimum rates can be fixed on basis of hour, day or month, or even longer period. BASIS: the fixation of minimum wages depends on various factors
like Socio-economic and agro-climatic conditions, prices of essential commodities, paying capacity and the local factors influencing the wage rate.
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AUTHORITIES:
Advisory board
Government is required to constitute Advisory Board to recommend minimum wages. The recommendations of Advisory Board are not binding on Government.
the payment in cash. y If it is a custom to make payment wholly or partly in kind, the appropriate govt. may permit it. y It may by notification in the Official gazette, authorize the provision of essential commodities at concessional rates.
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Receipts given by the employees. Other particulars and in such forms may be prescribed.
Inspectors
Sec. 19 :The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint such persons as it thinks fit to be Inspector for the purposes of this Act, and define the local limits within which they shall exercise their functions.
He may enter, any place where employees are employeed,work is given out to an out-worker covered under this act, for the purpose of examining any register,record of wages or notices required for the production for inspection, examine any person whom he finds in any such premises or an employee to whom work is given over there, require any person giving out-work and any out-workers, to give any information, seize or take copies of documents, exercise such other powers as may be prescribed.
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Claims
Sec. 20:The Appropriate Government may appoint an authority to hear and decide the claims relating to payment Of less than Minimum rates of Wages For work done on days of rest for days of rest Who may apply: Employee himself or Any legal partitioner Registered Trade Union Any Inspector Any person with the permission of authority For the overtime.
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An employer shall be punishable with fine upto 500 rs for contravention of any other provision of the act, where no other penalty is provided.
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the undertaking. Paying capacity is not relevant consideration for rate of minimum wages. Deepak Photos v. State of Kerala 2001 Minimum wages are payable irrespective of financial position of individual employer Hindustan Aeronautics v. Workmen AIR 1967
allowance which is linked with cost of living index, amount paid on basis of DA is not to be taken as an independent component of minimum wages, but as part and parcel of process of computing minimum wages. Hence, in cases where employer is paying total sum which is higher than minimum rates of wages fixed under the Act including the cost of living index (VDA), he is not required to payVDA separately.
Harilal Jechand Doshi v. Maharashtra General Kamgar Union 2000
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employments in State sphere. y It includes workers employed in unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled sectors like shawl & carpet weaving, different mines, construction or maintenance of roads, agriculture or in conjunction with farm operations, industries and factories etc. as specified in Schedule I of the Act. y Due to widespread disparity in the minimum wages throughout the country The National Floor Level Minimum Wage is fixed at Rs 80 per day by the govt.
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Minimum wages in Delhi (per day) y Skilled Rs. 142.10 y Semi-skilled Rs. 132.20 y Unskilled Rs. 125.80
In Australia its 543.78 Australian dollars per week; Denmark- none, nationally; instead, negotiated between unions and employer associations; 100.65 kroner, according to the terms of the country's largest collective bargaining agreement, negotiated in the spring of 2008 and covering almost the entire industrial sector
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NEPAL- 4,600 Nepalese rupees a month for unskilled labor (3,050 rupees as a basic salary, and 1,550 rupees as an allowance); 4,650 NRS for semi-skilled labor; 4,760 NRS for skilled labor; 4,950 NRS for highly skilled labor PAKISTAN- 6,000 Pakistani rupees per month, applying only to industrial and commercial establishments employing 50 or more workers THAILAND-ranges from 148 Thai baht to 203 baht per day, depending on the cost of living in various provinces; set by provincial tripartite wage committees that sometimes include only employer representatives UNITED KINGDOM- 5.80 per hour (aged 22 and older), 4.83 per hour (aged 18-21) or 3.57 per hour (under 18 and finished compulsory education) USA-the federal minimum wage is US$7.25 per hour; states may also set a minimum, in which case the higher of the two is 23 controlling
THANK YOU!!!
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