Article 43 in Constitution of India
43. Living wage, etc., for workers
The State shall endeavour to secure, by suitable legislation or economic organisation ... other way, to all workers, agricultural, industrial or otherwise, work, a living wage, conditions of work ensuring a decent standard of life and full enjoyment
claim that the
gap between its actual wage and the living wage should,
within reasonable limits, be filled up. In dealing with the
claims ... regarded
as a deferred wage. According to this decision, where wages
fall short of the living
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wages is the lowest wage in the scale below
which the efficiency of the worker is likely to be impaired.
It allows for living ... 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
purely arithmetical problem. Wages are
usually divided into three broad categories: the basic
minimum wage, the fair wage and the living wage. The
concept ... basic minimum wage is the
bare subsistence wage; above it is the fair wage, and beyond
the fair wage is the living wage. It would
criteria might be adopted: (1) a living wage; (2)' a fair wage; and (3) a wage that is within the capacity of the industry ... Committee of Fair Wages also expressed the opinion that
"the fixation of a minimum wage on the basis of a living wage which ensures
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fair wage and living wage have been examined, and it has
been pointed ... content of the expressions " minimum wage ", " fair wage
" and " living wage " is not fixed and static; it varies
total minimum wage,"
The wage structure which approximately answers these six
components is nothing more than a minimum wage at subsist-
ence level ... need based minimum wage. In any
case there is a very long way between the need based wage
and the living wage
wage and not a
minimum wage. In fact, the employees requested the
Government to fix a minimum wage which was accordingly
fixed. Fair wage ... three categories, the living wage, the fair wage and
the minimum wage. After elaborately setting out the concept
of living wage
concept of a living wage. However, a minimum wage even here must provide not merely for the bare subsistence of living, but for the efficiency ... which the Wage Board was to have regard to in fixing rates of wages and these circumstances were the cost of living, the prevalent rates
Malayalam Plantations Limited And Ors. vs State Of Kerala And Ors. on 5 September, 1974
