wage scale, may have same impact on the
gratuity rate and a large provision for gratuity nay have
its retroactive effect upon the wage structure ... wage scale may have some
impact on the gratuity rate and a large provision for
gratuity may have its retroactive effect upon the wage
structure
proiressiviily raised from the stage of minimim wage,
passing through need found wage, fair wage, to living wage.
The principle of region-cum-industry ... progressively raised from the stage of minimum wage, passing
through need found wage, fair wage, to living wage.
Industrial adjudication reflected in the judgments
BENCH:
ACT:
Industrial Dispute--Company undertaking several concerns
If--independent units--Wage structure--Incremental scales--
Minimum wage and fair wage, distinction--Gratuity in
addition ... wage and fair wage
which is above the bare minimum wage. In the former case
the tribunal could insist that the employer paid minimum
wages
basic wages.
Held, that the employers had failed to establish that they
were paying a living wage to the workmen. In construing
wage structure ... Wages are
usually divided into three broad categories: the basic
minimum wage, the fair wage and the living wage. The
concept of these three wages
minimum wage which is the bare subsistence wage, above it
is the fair wage, and beyond the fair wage is the living wage.
The said ... should further constitute 25 per
cent of the total minimum wage.”
13. The wage structure which approximately answers
the above six components is nothing more
SC1113 (17)
RF 1979 SC 25 (30)
ACT:
Minimum Wages-Notification fixing wage structure-If ultra
vires-Validity of enactment-Capacity of employer ... country.
Sometimes the minimum wage is described as a bare minimum
wage in order to distinguish it from the, wage structure
which is 'subsistence
income, particularly of those in the higher
wage groups. Generally speaking, the distortion of the
wage-structure takes place because employees in different
pay scales ... that irresponsible and
unjustified upward revision of wages would create ripples
elsewhere and disturb the wage-structure in the region.
However, it must be realised
Lipton, Ltd., had a uniform system of wages
in India and if the wage structure of the Delhi employees
was revised it would mean revising ... comparable industries in the same region, the wages were
higher and, therefore, the wage structure required revision
to the extent allowed by the Industrial Tribunal
part of the Hotel establishment-Financial position of
employer and wage Structure-Bonus-Remuneration of partners-
Extent and Scope of interference of this Court ... wage problem in the
present case. It would be open to the employers to raise a
dispute for the reduction in the wage structure
marriages etc. should further constitute
25% of the total minimum wage,"
The wage structure which approximately answers these six
components is nothing more than ... marriages etc. should further constitute
25% of the total minimum wage.
The wage structure which approximately answers the above six
components is nothing more than
