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
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
content
minimum wage and when the industrial minimum wage happens to
be higher than the statutory minimum wage it will be
industrial minimum wage which ... considered.
A fair wage is a mean between the living wage and the
minimum wage. Wages must be fair, that is to say
sufficiently high
fair wages' and not wages as required under the Minimum Wages Act , though the appellant was under an obligation to pay wages, which would ... fair wages" is different from "minimum wages" and if a person paid minimum wages under the Minimum Wages Act , being a statutory
wages and on proof of such payment of the said increased
wages having been made, the NTPC is required to reimburse the increased
wages paid ... increased wages need not be paid by the NTPC, if
the increase in wages is not more than 10% of the said wages. The other
fixing minimum rates of wages.
(viii) The rates fixed in the impugned notification are not minimum wages, but of fair wages of living wages ... following statement in the Report of the Committee on Fair Wages, was quoted with approval by the Supreme Court in Express Newspaper
minimum wages while Ext. P21 has purported to fix the minimum wages. As regards the notification fixing the minimum wages in coffee plantations there ... fixed as minimum wages by the impugned notifications were really the fair wages for the industry and if so the machinery under the Minimum Wages
fair wage" is thus a mean between
the living wage and the minimum wage and even
the minimum wage contemplated above is
something more ... wage is described as a
bare minimum wage in order to distinguish it
from the wage structure which is 'subsistence
plus' or fair
