workmen--Central Government whether can refer such
disputes to Tribunal--Need-based minimum wage-Formula to be
adopted for consumption units per family--Proper coefficient ... achieve the need-based minimum. In
determining family budgets so as to discover the worker's
normal needs which the minimum wage regulations ought
minimum wages and fair wages.
With regard to the minimum wage fixation it was agreed that
the minimum wage was need based to ensure ... concept of the need-based
wage. It is obvious that between the need based wage and
the living wage there is a very long distance
higher than what would be
required by the concept of need based minimum wage. In any
case there is a very long way between ... really thinking of
what
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is today described as the minimum need-based
wage, and it found that judged by the said
standard the current
award to the
recommendations of the Tripartite Conference wherein the
need-based minimum wage was evolved, did not vitiate the
award, as the final decision ... away by the
recommendations of the tripartite conference which suggested
need based minimum wages. It is also urged that whatever
comparison was made was with
wages can be articulated in 4 different following categories, (i) minimum wage, (ii) fair wage, (iii) living wage and (iv) need based minimum wage ... Minimum Wages Act . The second has, generally, been used in industrial award and judicial pronouncements, whereas, the living wage and need based minimum wage
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 ... wages "paid to the workers are not only
below the level of fair wages but far below the need-based
minimum even as recommended
note dated October 7, 1989 is arbitrary.
(xiii) The basic minimum wages notified by the impugned notification are Rs. 13/- to Rs. 17/- which ... based his case on the following grounds :-
(i) The Government and the Board have not examined and evaluated the need based minimum wages
that they have recommended a minimum wage and not a need-based minimum wage or an essential minimum wage for workers in the context ... Chapter detailed analysis of what is the need based minimum, and how the phased out programme should be worked out were annexed.
7. The Government
Mukand Ltd. vs Mukand Staff & Officers Association And ... on 30 November, 1999
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