Payment of Wages Act. The remedy in such a situation is provided under section 20 of the Minimum Wages Act where minimum wages ... Wages Act can only be the difference between wages actually paid and the wages payable under the Act.
The application for payment of minimum wages
Minimum Wages Act provides for fixation of
minimum wages and reads as under:-
"4. Minimum rate of wages.-
(1) Any minimum rate of wages ... connected cases [9]
Doubtlessly, minimum wage fixed under the Minimum Wages Act provides a
sound criterion/guideline and benchmark to assess the income
Minimum Wages Act reads as under ;
"14. Overtime :- (1) Where an employee, whose minimum rate of wages is fixed under this Act ... Minimum Wages Act is applicable and they were entitled to the minimum wages and other benefits under the Minimum Wages Act . In another case
view of Rule 32 of the Minimum Wages (Central) Rules, 1950, the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act did not apply. This contention also ... rates of such minimum wages. In these cases the employees' claim is under the Minimum Wages Act 1948 and under any other
Minimum Wages Act Case No. 6 of 1961 before the Labour Court, and Miscellaneous Judicial Case No. 361 of 1962 arises out of Minimum Wages ... before the Labour Court, were both under Section 20 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (hereinafter to be referred to as the Act unless
difference between the wages actually paid and the wages payable at the minimum rate of wages fixed under the Minimum Wages Act by the State ... difference between the wage paid and the minimum wage on behalf of the respondent-workers. The Minimum Wages Act was passed in 1948 by central
minimum rate of wages is fixed under the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act , the rate of wages for the purposes of calculating wages ... Factories Act or S. 14 of the Minimum Wages Act. The total wage bill, therefore, even in the case of the present employer
Minimum Wages Act shall be the only remedies for the rights created by that Act.
18. Certain provisions of the Minimum Wages Act show that ... Wages Act and to whom the Minimum Wages Act is also extended shall be deprived of their remedy under the Payment of Wages Act
Minimum Wages Act being a special Act for this purpose had to take precedence over Industrial Disputes Act , which was a general Act. Further, Section ... Minimum Wages Act has no force. As regards the argument of the learned counsel that the Minimum Wages Act was a special Act and, therefore
minimum wages and the wages actually paid will not come within the definition of wages occurring in Section 2(vi) of the Payment of Wages ... Minimum Wages Act is identical with that part of the definition of 'wages' in Section 2(vi) of the Payment of Wages Act
