Rajasthan, AIR 1983, court held that payment of wages which is lower than the minimum wage to a person who is working in famine relief ... Supreme Court emphasized that the right to receive timely and fair wages is an essential component of the prohibition on forced labor under Article
realised that "fair wage" is not "living
wage" by which is meant a wage which is
sufficient to provide not only ... claimed
basic wage is wholly irrelevant to the demand of the bare,
minimum wage. The bare minimum wage, as pointed out in the
Kamani Metals
medically, and ethically to be the acceptable minimum. [47
C-D]
Fair wage by comparison is more generous and involves a rate
sufficiently high ... living wage concept is one or more steps higher then air
wage. It has now been generally accepted that living wage
means that every male
proiressiviily raised from the stage of minimim wage,
passing through need found wage, fair wage, to living wage.
The principle of region-cum-industry ... progressively raised from the stage of minimum wage, passing
through need found wage, fair wage, to living wage.
Industrial adjudication reflected in the judgments
fair wages. It also took into consideration the
observations made by the Wage Board which for purposes of
fixing wage rates had taken into consideration ... recommendations of the Wage Board, the bargemen were
entitled to the same wages and allowances which had been
recommended by the Wage Board having regard
Dispute--Company undertaking several concerns
If--independent units--Wage structure--Incremental scales--
Minimum wage and fair wage, distinction--Gratuity in
addition to Provident Fund--Scheme ... given
a fair wage, and that the present wages, though above the
bare minimum wage, are still not fair enough and therefore
should be increased
usual to divide wages
into three broad categories: the basic minimum wage is the
bare subsistence wage; above it is the fair wage, and beyond ... wages to national
income and so on, and proceeded to discuss the wage policy
with specific reference to minimum wages and fair wages.
With regard
that in determining minimum wage three criteria might be adopted: (1) a living wage; (2)' a fair wage; and (3) a wage that ... meant fair wages. It runs as follows:
"For the purpose of determining the minimum rates of wages to be fixed, the wage fixing body
rates of minimum wages fixed under the provisions of
the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 , or as fixed by the wage
committee; and so, merely because ... rise of rates of
wages on both the counts. Payment of wages as per the rates
fixed under the Minimum Wages Act being statutory obligation
wage is described as a bare minimum
wage in order to distinguish it from the, wage structure
which is 'subsistence plus or fair wage ... several aspects of the
concept of wage structure including the concept of minimum
wage. The conclusion of the Fair Wage Committee as to the
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