court held that payment of wages which is lower than the minimum wage to a person who is working in famine relief work is against
Articles 38 , 41 , 42 , 43 , Bonded
Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1974 - Minimum Wages Act, 1948 ,
Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 .
HEADNOTE:
Pursuant to an investigative ... Centre and the State like absence
of a notification specifying minimum wages for the labour
force employed in the mines, resulting in poultry and meagre
Section 20 in The Minimum Wages Act, 1948
20. Claims.—
(1) The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint any Commissioner ... presented within six months from the date on which the minimum wages or other amount became payable: Provided further that any application may be admitted
with the Asian
Games like Constitution of India, 1950 Arts. 24, Minimum
wages Act, 1948, Equal Remuneration Act . The employment of
Children ... Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Orissa and paid to
these Jamadars the minimum wage of Rs. 9.25 per
day per worker and not to the workmen
Rates of wages " and not " scales of
wages", the Wage Board was to consider. The term " rates of
wages applies only ... industrial minimum ", or is it a " statutory minimum " ?
An " industrial minimum " is a subsistence wage that has to
be paid
time work (hereinafter referred to as "a minimum time rate"); (b) a minimum rate of wages for piece work (hereinafter referred to as "a minimum ... that where any wage-periods have been fixed under section 4 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936), minimum wages shall
years
of service with a minimum of 240 days in each calendar year
to be paid minimum wages at the rates as prescribed ... should be paid minimum pay scale as admissible to an
incumbent regularised on similar post doing similar work
instead of minimum wages as prescribed
rates-Whether
applications governed by s. 20(1) of the Minimum Wages Act
(11 of 1948).
Limitation Act (36 of 1963),Art. 137-If applies ... Minimum Wages Act with the provisions of
the Payment of Wages Act which was already in existence when
the Minimum Wages Act was passed
Kerala issued a notification dated
30th March, 1983, under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 revising
the minimum wages payable to the employees employed ... April, 1983.
The contractor claims that he started paying revised minimum
wages to the employees and applying the labour escalation
formula, the Board made payments
Section 2 in The Minimum Wages Act, 1948
2. Interpretation.—
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, (a) "adolescent ... employees in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed, means the index number ascertained and declared