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The Minimum Wages Act, 1948
Airfreight Ltd vs State Of Karnataka And Ors on 4 August, 1999
9. The State relies on Y.A. Mamarde and Nine
Others and Ghanshyam and Eight Others v. Authority
under the Minimum Wages Act [Small Causes Court]
Nagpur and Another [(1972) 2 SCC 108], Workmen
Represented by Secretary v. Reptakos Brett & Co. Ltd.
And Another [(1992) 1 SCC 290] Airfreight Ltd. v.
State of Karnataka and Others [(1999) 6 SCC 567].
Chandra Bhavan Boarding And Lodging, ... vs The State Of Mysore And Anr on 29 September, 1969
10. Sri.S. Krishnamoorthy appearing for the
employees would submit that the question of financial
capacity is no longer relevant going by the decision
of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Chandra Bhawan
Boarding and Lodging, Bangalore v. State of Mysore and
Another [AIR 1970 SC 2042]. The said decision also
lays at naught the argument of the petitioner that the
Committee constituted does not have the
representatives of the financial sector, especially on
the point of the option provided to the Government to
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either proceed under Clause (a) and (b) of Section
5(1).
Malayalam Plantations Limited And Ors. vs State Of Kerala And Ors. on 5 September, 1974
Reliance is also placed on the Full Bench
decision of this Court reported in Malayalam
Plantations Ltd. & Others v. State of Kerala & Others
[1975 KLT 296], to argue that the capacity to pay of
individual employers is not a relevant factor to be
considered in prescribing Minimum Wages. The learned
Counsel would contend that the various additional
components provided in Ext.P3 notification are also
incidence of service and could be validly provided
under the M.W. Act. It is pointed out that without
service weightage, on implementation of the minimum
wages, a person having five years' experience in the
organization and one who joins after the
implementation would be entitled to only the very same
pay. For effective implementation of the notification
there should be service weightage; which otherwise
will be denied to the employees. Specfic reference is
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made to the English version of the notification which
according to him has more clarity. It is contented
that the weightage provided is a one time measure to
those employees continuing in the organisation
confined to five years for all who have not less than
five years of service. If at least that is not
permitted every employee will start at the lowest of
the scale.
Article 14 in Constitution of India [Constitution]
Bidi, Bidi Leaves And Tobacco ... vs The State Of Bombay on 15 November, 1961
24. The above finding on service weightage
has to be tested on the anvil of the decisions of the
Apex Court, now placed before us, which obviously was
not considered in Kerala Rubber Footware Manufacturers
and Export Association. We have already looked at
Bidi, Bidi Leaves and Tobacco Merchants Association
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[supra]. In Hindustan Sanitaryware and Industries Ltd.
which followed the Constitution Bench decision cited
above, the question inter alia was as to
categorisation of unskilled employees as semi-skilled
and skilled with grading of 'A' and 'B' on their
acquiring experience of a certain number of years;
which is akin to service weightage. The employer
therein challenged the said categorisation on the
ground that under the M.W. Act the Government does not
have the power to alter the conditions of service,
contract or settlement between the employer and the
employee. The definition of wages, employer and
employee were specifically noticed by the Hon'ble
Supreme Court and the Constitution Bench decision was
copiously quoted from, which we have also extracted
above. The argument of the Government of Haryana was
that the prescription that a workman would be raised
from semi-skilled 'B' category to semi-skilled 'A'
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category and then to the skilled category on
completion of specific years of experience. This is to
ensure that the workmen are not exploited by the
employees. This was also on the recommendation of the
expert body constituted to protect the interest of the
workmen. The Hon'ble Supreme Court held "the
grievances of the workmen can be redressed by fora
constituted under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947,
if the Government does not have the competence to deal
with certain issues in the notification under the Act
[sic paragraph-12].