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Work and Wages
Minimum Wage
Minimum wage rates in India are fixed under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. Since labour is a concurrent subject under the Indian Constitution, minimum wage rates are determined both by the Central Government and the Provincial Governments. Minimum wage rates in India are declared at the national, state, sectoral and skill/occupational levels. Minimum wage rates may be established for any region, occupation and sector. Also, the minimum wage is established for trainees, youth and piece-rate workers. Minimum wage is determined by considering the cost of living.
Minimum rate of wages may consist of a basic rate of wages and a cost of living allowance; or a basic rate of wages, with or without the cost of living allowance, and the cash value of concessions in respect of the supply of essential commodities at concession rates (if authorized); or an all-inclusive rate allowing for the basic rate, the cost of living allowance and the cash value of the concessions (if any).
While fixing or revising minimum rates of wages, different minimum rates of wages may be fixed for different scheduled employments; different classes of work in the same scheduled employment; adults, adolescents, children and apprentices; and different localities. The minimum wage rates may be fixed by hour, day, month or any such other larger wage period as may be prescribed.
Under the Minimum Wages Act, both the Central and State Governments may notify the scheduled employments and fix/revise minimum wage rates for these scheduled employments. The scheduled employments include both the agricultural and non-agricultural employments. Both the Central and State Governments are empowered to notify any employment (industry/sector) in the schedule where the number of employees is 1000 or more and fix the rates of minimum wages in respect of the employees employed therein.
Minimum wage is announced for 45 scheduled employments in the Central Sphere while the State level minimum wage is determined by every state keeping in view the sectors more dominant in the State. Minimum wage is revised while considering the following five elements: three consumption units per earner; minimum food requirement of 2700 calories per average adult; cloth requirement of 72 yards per annum per family; house rent corresponding to the minimum area provided under the Government's Industrial Housing Scheme; fuel, lighting and other miscellaneous items of expenditure to constitute 20% of the total minimum wage; and children education, medical requirement, minimum recreation including festivals/ceremonies and provision for old age, marriage etc. should further constitute 25% of the total minimum wage (the last component added by the Supreme Court in Reptakos Brett Vs Workmen case in 1991). Minimum wages may be reviewed at different intervals however such intervals cannot exceed five years.
The Minimum Wages Act provides for two methods of fixation/revision of minimum wages. Under the Committee Method, committees and sub-committees are set up by the Government to hold inquiries and make recommendations with regard to fixation and revision of minimum wages. Under the Notification method, government proposals are published in the Official Gazette for information of the persons likely to be affected and specify a date (not less than two months from the date of the notification) on which the proposals will be taken into consideration.
After considering advice of the Committees/Sub-committees (Committee method) and all the representations received by the specified date (Notification method), the appropriate Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, fixes/revises the minimum wage in respect of the concerned scheduled employment which come into force on expiry of three months from the date of its issue.
