Minimum wages

The government has interfered in this issue
between the employer and employee because in several cases workers are
too poor to obtain a decent wage from employers and have to take what is
given. It is to protect these kind of weak and vulnerable workers that
government has come in between and made minimum wage rules which the
employer has to obey. As to how much that minimum wage should be, the
highest court in India the Supreme Court has said that the wage
should be more than what is necessary for physical existence of the
worker and his or her family means . It should be enough to maintain his
or her efficiency as a worker.In case of non-payment, applications
should be made to the Labour Commissioner of Payment of Wages Act.

workers should only work for eight hours in a day.

f they work more than that they have to be paid an extra amount.

Workers should be given one day holiday in every week they have worked.

The law which decides that minimum wages
should be paid, applies to only those kinds of workers whom the
government feel is in need of protection. The government adds the kinds
of work they do, whether it is for example domestic work to a list. If
more that one thousand workers are doing such kind of work, then the
government has to fix a minimum wage for workers doing that type of
work. Some times the government may fix a minimum wage for work in which
less than a thousand workers are employed. They have the freedom to
decide.

Re-narration by Amrapali in English targeting India for this web page