Minimum wages act
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The document summarizes key aspects of the Minimum Wages Act of 1948 in India. It was the first labor legislation to establish a minimum wage for workers in different employments. The Act empowers the central and state governments to set minimum wages for scheduled jobs and review wages every 5 years. It defines employees and adolescents and outlines how minimum wages are calculated, including overtime pay and wages for partial days. Employers must maintain registers and records, and inspectors can be appointed to enforce the Act. Penalties are outlined for employers who pay less than the minimum wage.
Minimum wages act
- 2. LABOUR WELFARE AND LABOUR LEGISLATION - II TOPIC: MINIMUM WAGES ACT, 1948 PRESENTED BY M.RANJITH KUMAR
- 3. INTRODUCTION The minimum wages act 1948 is the first labour legislation in the country dealing with the fixation of minimum rate of wages for workers employed in different employment.
- 4. SCOPE OF THE ACT The philosophy behind the employment of this this Act is to prevent exploitation of labour by paying lower wages. This Act empowers the state and central government to fix minimum rate of wages for different kind of employment listed in the schedule of the Act . This Act also provides for review of the rates of minimum wages at interval not exceeding five years.
- 5. DEFINTION ‘’Employer’’ means any person who employs, whether directly or through another person, or whether on behalf of any other person, one more employees in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed under this act; ‘’Adolescent’’ means a person who has completed his fourteenth years of age but has not completed his eighteenth year;
- 6. MINIMUM RATE OF WAGES Any minimum rate of wages fixed or revised by the appropriate government in respect of scheduled employments under Section 3 may consist of; • A basic rate of wages and a special allowance at a rate to be adjusted, a basic rate of wages with or without the cost of living allowance, and the case value of the concessions in respect of supplies of essential commodities at concessional rates, where so authorised; or • An all inclusive rate allowing for the basic rate, the cost of living allowance and the case value of the concessions, if any
- 7. WAGES OF WROKER WHO WROKS FOR LESS THAN NORMAL WORKING DAY If an employee whose minimum rate of wages has been fixed under this act by the day the works on any day on which he was employed for a period less than the requisite number of hours constituting a normal working day, he shall, be entitled to receive wages in respect of work done by him on that day as if he has worked for a full normal working day. • In any case where his failure to work is caused by his unwillingness to work and not by the omission of the employer to provide him with work, and • In such other case and circumstances as may be prescribed
- 8. OVERTIME Where an employee, whose minimum rate of fixed under this act by the hour, by the day or by such a longer wage-period as may be prescribed, works on any in excess of the number of hours constituting a normal working day, the employer shall pay him for every hour or for part of an hour so worked in excess at overtime rate fixed under this act or part of an hour so worked in excess at the overtime rate fixed under this act or under any law of the appropriate government for the time being in force, whichever is higher.
- 9. MAINTENANCE OF REGISTERS AND RECORDS Every employer shall keep exhibited, in such manner as may be prescribed, in the factory, workshop or place where the employees in the scheduled employment may be employed, or in the case of outworkers, in such factory, workshop or place as may be used for giving out work to him, notices in the prescribed form containing prescribed particulars.
- 10. INSPECTORS The appropriate government may, by notification in the official gazette, appoint such persons as it thinks, fit to be inspectors for the purposes of this act and define the local limits within they shall exercise their functions,
- 11. PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN OFFENCES Any employer who: a) Pays any employee less than the minimum rates of wages fixed for that employees class of work, or less than the amount due to him under the provisions of this act, or b) Contravenes to any rule or order made under section 13;shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both; Provided that in imposing of any fine for an offence under this section, the court shall take into consideration the amount of any compensation already awarded against the accused an any proceedings taken under section 20.