basic wages can be exercised by the State Government while fixing minimum wages under S. 5 of the Minimum Wages Act appears to have been ... same basic work-load or task assigned to the male and female labourers. If the intention was not to correlate these basic wages
SC1263 (9)
ACT:
Industrial Dispute-Minimum basic wage fixed by Tribunal-
Modification by Labour Appellate Tribunal according to
statutory notification issued two years after ... Tribunal for adjudication. The first Tribunal could not fix
any minimum basic wage and the award of the second Tribunal
which fixed a scale
wage and minimum wage in industrial adjudication and observed as follows :
"Ever since the Fair wage Committee considered the question of fair wages ... elastic and varying. The terms "basic wage", "fair wage" and "living wage", like their variants "the poverty level
wages have been fixed; and includes "
Section 3(3) provides that in fixing or revising minimum rates of wages, different minimum rates of wages ... minimum wages of workmen' employed in the tea gardens of Assam at certain cash rates. The minimum wages so fixed consisted of basic wages
instance in Australian industrial
terminology between the basic wage and the
minimum wage:
―The basic wage there approximates to a bare
minimum subsistence wage ... supra) went on to
analyse the concepts of ―minimum wage‖, ―fair wage‖ and
―living wage‖ in much greater detail in a later decision in
Standard
basic wage can be lesser than
the minimum wages and this is the prerogative of the
management to fix the basic wage in accordance with ... dispute is not of the
"wages" as defined under the Minimum Wages Act and "basic
wages" under
minimum rate of wages and reads as follows:
"4. Minimum rate of wages.---(1) Any minimum rate of wages fixed or revised ... wages within the meaning of section 4(1) . If the employer has paid the total wages more than the minimum rate of wages within
requirement for taking basic
wage to be equal to minimum wage. The employer was entitled
to take basic wage as per Section ... definition of 'minimum wage' under the Minimum
Wages Act, 1948 . No doubt wage less than minimum wage in
violation of law cannot
also raising the basic wages of the workmen who are at higher wage levels;
(ii) the comparative statement showing the basic wages and dearness allowance ... minimum wages under the Minimum Wages Act also makes a provision for special allowance to be paid along with the basic rate of wages
employees of the petitioner were fair wages or not fair wages. His reference to the Minimum Wages Act is, to us, incomprehensible as nothing ... wages have been fixed under the Minimum Wages Act for any of the categories of employees of the petitioner. Reference to the Minimum Wages
