minimum wages ?
(13) Are the notifications bad because they provided for dearness allowance exceeding 100 per cent neutralisation in certain industries ?
(14) Are the notifications ... revising the minimum wages, is there any scope for incorporation of variable dearness allowance in the impugned notification ?
(19) Since the draft notification
over and above 1513 points for the purpose of payments of Variable Dearness Allowance (VDA). The State Government after considering the recommendation of the Advisory ... living allowance" is popularly called as dear-ness allowance. The Act makes no specific mention of the term "dearness allowance
agreed in the settlement. The demand for variable
dearness allowance (V.D.A) was dropped. During the course of
validity period of the settlement, workers ... wages and other service
conditions and also for payment of variable dearness
allowance. In bilateral negotiations, the Management did not
come forward with reasonable offer
Minimum Wages
Act, 1948 exempting the Beedi Industry from payment of
Variable Dearness Allowance to its workmen for the period
2015-2016.
2. The said ... notification dated 08.04.2015 exempting the
Beedi Industry from Payment of Variable Dearness Allowance
against which the present petition is filed.
5. Smt. Kasturi
Labour and Employment
the undersigned, hereby revise the rates of Variable
Dearness Allowance on the basis of the average consumer
price index number ... shall
come into force w.e.f. 01.04.2019.
The rates of Variable Dearness Allowance for
workers employed in CONSTRUCTION OR MAINTENANCE
OF ROADS OR RUNWAYS
wages on piece rate basis and that they have been denied variable dearness allowance from 1.4.1994 to August 1996.
4. The petitioner resisted the claim ... difference in minimum wages on account of non payment of variable Dearness Allowance. It is this which is under challenge in this writ petition.
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settlement, Workmen were entitled for variable dearness
allowance as per the notification issued by the Statement
Government from time to time. In terms of settlement ... arrived
between the parties, the petitioner-Management having not
paid the variable Dearness allowance as specified under the
settlement, the second respondent filed an application
Fixed Dearness Allowance of
Rs.3,643/-, Variable Dearness Allowance of Rs.3,395/-, House ... Allowance
of Rs.4,891/-, Special Conveyance Allowance at Rs.1,130/-,
Special Allowances of Rs.452/-, Medical allowances of
Rs.1,350/-, Educational Allowance
contention of the petitioners that the rate of increase of dearness allowance provided for in the impugned notification amounts to 300 per cent neutralisation ... There is intrinsic material also to demonstrate that the rate of dearness allowance fixed is excessive as contended for the petitioners. On the recommendation
dearness
allowance. It reads-
"In addition to the basic wage mentioned in the schedule, the employee shall be paid a Cost of Living Allowance ... view of the illustration above, it can be seen that variable Dearness Allowance at the rate of Rs. 1.30 per point is nothing but only
