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
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
subsistence wage, above it
is the fair wage, and beyond the fair wage is the living wage.
The said three categories of wages are described ... recognised.
19. ... With regard to the minimum wage fixation it was
agreed that the minimum wage was need-based to
ensure the minimum human needs
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based wage. Even if the payment of minimum bonus is
viewed an compulsory payment of wage, the power to impose it
as part of minimum ... wage is not lacking. It must not be
forgotten that the fixation of minimum wage was also
criticised along the same lines but was held
standards in the matter of wage fixation. At the
bottom of the ladder, there is the minimum basic wage which
the employer of any industrial ... roughly be said to approximate to the need
based minimum, in the sense of a wage which is "adequate to
cover the normal needs
certain standards in the matter of wage fixation. At the bottom of the ladder, there is minimum basic wage which the employer of any industrial ... roughly be said to approximate to the need based minimum, in the sense of a wage which is "adequate to cover the normal needs
