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Minimum Wages Act, 1948 Complete Act

Title: Minimum Wages Act, 1948

State: Central

Year: 1948

.....of undisbursed amounts due to employees Section22E - Protection against attachment of assets of employer with Government Section22F - Application of Payment of Wages Act, 1936, to scheduled employments Section23 - Exemption of employer from liability in certain cases Section24 - Bar of suits Section25 - Contraction out Section26 - Exemptions and exceptions Section27 - Power of State Government of add to Schedule Section27A - Protection to persons acting under the Act Section27B - Delegation of power Section28 - Power of Central Government to give directions Section29 - Power of the Central Government to make rules Section30 - Power of appropriate Government to make rules Section30A - Rules made by Central Government to be laid before Parliament Section31 - Validation of fixation of certain minimum rates of wages ScheduleI - SCHEDULE

Payment of Wages Act, 1936 Complete Act

Title: Payment of Wages Act, 1936

State: Central

Year: 1936

.....deductions from wages or delay in payment of wages and penalty for malicious or vexatious claims Section16 - Single application in respect of claims from unpaid group Section17 - Appeal Section17A - Conditional attachment of property of employer or other person responsible for payment of wages Section18 - Powers of authorities appointed under section 15 Section19 - Power to recover from employer in certain cases Section20 - Penalty for offences under the Act Section21 - Procedure in trial of offences Section22 - Bar of Suits Section22A - Protection of action taken in good faith Section23 - Contracting out Section24 - Application of Act to railways, air transport services, mines and oil-fields Section25 - Display by notice of abstracts of the Act Section25A - Payment of undisguised wages in cases of death of employed person Section26 - Rule-making power

Working Journalists (Fixation of Rates of Wages) Act, 1958 Complete Act

Title: Working Journalists (Fixation of Rates of Wages) Act, 1958

State: Central

Year: 1958

Preamble1 - THE WORKING JOURNALISTS (FIXATION OF RATES OF WAGES) ACT, 1958 Section1 - Short title Section2 - Definitions Section3 - Constitution of Committee Section4 - Functions of Committee Section5 - Powers of Committee Section6 - Power of Central Government to enforce recommendations of Committee Section7 - Working journalists entitled to wages at rates not less than those specified in the order Section8 - Review of order of Central Government Section9 - Recovery of money due to working journalists Section10 - Authentication of orders, letters, etc., of the Committee Section11 - Effect of Act on Working, Journalists Act, etc Section12 - Vacancies, etc., not to invalidate proceedings of Committee Section12A - Penalty Section13 - Power to make rules Section14 - [Repealed]

Payment of Wages (Amendment) Act, 2005 Complete Act

Title: Payment of Wages (Amendment) Act, 2005

State: Central

Year: 2005

Preamble1 - PAYMENT OF WAGES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005 Section1 - Short Title and Commencement Section2 - Amendment of section 1: Section3 - Substitution of References to Certain Expressions by other Expression: Section4 - Amendment of Section 2: Section5 - Substitution of New Section for Section 3: Section6 - Amendment of Section 7: Section7 - Amendment of Section 8: Section8 - Amendment of Section 15: Section9 - Amendment of Section 20: Section10 - Substitution of New Section for Section 24: Section11 - Amendment of Section 26:

The Minimum Wages Act, 1948 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1948

.....in the subject or context, 3 [(a) "adult", "adolescent" and "child" have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948); (b) "appropriate Government" means (i) in relation to any scheduled employment carried on by or under the authority of the 4 [Central Government or a railway administration] or in relation to a mine, oil field or major port, or any corporation established by 5 [a Central Act, the Central Government; and (ii) in relation to any other scheduled employment the 6 [State Government; (c) "competent authority" means the authority appointed by the appropriate Government by notification in its Official Gazette to ascertain from time to time the cost of living index number applicable to the employees employed in the scheduled employments specified in such notification; (d) "cost of living index number" in relation to employees in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed, means the index number ascertained and declared by the competent authority by notification in Official Gazette to be the cost of living index number applicable to employees in such employment; (e).....

Working Journalists Wage Board Rules, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....28.-] RULE 24 Designation of authorized medical practitioner -Every news- paper establishment may designate one or more registered medical practitioners as authorized medical practitioners for the purposes of these rules. RULE 25 Earned leave - (1) A working journalist shall be entitled to earned leave on full wages for a period not less than one month for every eleven months spent on duty: Provided that he shall cease to earn such leave when the earned leave due amounts to ninety days. (2) The period spent on duty shall include the weekly days of rest, holidays, casual leave and quarantine leave. RULE 26 Wages during earned leave -A working journalist on earned leave shall draw wages equal to .his average monthly wages earned during the period of twelve complete months spent on duty, or if the period is less than twelve complete months, during the entire such period, immediately preceding the month in which the leave commences. RULE 27 Cash compensation for earned leave not availed of - (1) When a working journalist voluntarily relinquishes his post or retires from service on reaching the age of superannuation, he shall be entitled to cash compensation for earned.....

Payment of Wages Act, 1936 Section 5

Title: Time of Payment of Wages

State: Central

Year: 1936

.....upon or in which less than one thousand persons are employed, shall be paid before expiry of the seventh day, (b) any other railway, factory or 1 [industrial or other establishment] shall be paid before the expiry of the tenth day, after the last day of the wage-period in respect of which the wages are payable: 2 [Provided that in the case of persons employed on a dock, wharf or jetty or in a mine, the balance of wages found due on completion of the final tonnage account of the ship or wagons loaded or unloaded, as the case may be, shall be paid before the expiry of the seventh day from the day of such completion.] (2) Where the employment of any person is terminated by or on behalf of the employer, the wages, earned by him shall be paid before the expiry of the second working day from the day on which his employment is terminated: 2 [Provided that where the employment of any person in an establishment is terminated due to the closure of the establishment for any reason other than a weekly or other recognised holiday, the wages earned by him shall be paid before the expiry of the second day from the day on which his employment is so terminated.] (3) The.....

Minimum Wages Act, 1948 Section 3

Title: Fixing of Minimum Rates of Wages

State: Central

Year: 1948

.....the Payment of Wages Act 1936 (4 of 1936), minimum wages shall be fixed in accordance therewith. STATE AMENDMENTS Gujarat--In section 3 of the Act-- to sub-section (1A), the following proviso shall be added, namely:-- "Provided that, where the State Government had for any reason not fixed the minimum rates of wages in respect of any scheduled employment within one year from the date on which it came to a finding as aforesaid in respect of such employment, nothing contained in this sub-section shall, after the commencement of the Minimum Wages (Gujarat Amend­ment) Act, 1961, prevent the State Government from fixing the minimum rates of wages in respect of such employment even after the expiry of the said period of one year." [Vide Gujarat Act 22 of 1961, sec. 2 (w.e.f. 18-5-1961)] Kerala--Section 3, in its application to the fixation of minimum rates of wages in respect of employments specified in Part I and Part II of the Schedule to the Act in relation to which the appropriate government is the State Government, shall have effect in the State of Kerala subject to the amendments specified below. In sub-section (1) of section 3-- in the opening words for the.....

Minimum Wages Act, 1948 Section 31

Title: Validation of Fixation of Certain Minimum Rates of Wages

State: Central

Year: 1948

.....which is less that the minimum rates of wages referred to in this section or by reasons of non- compliance during the period aforesaid with any order or rule under section 13. ] STATE AMENDMENTS Madhya Pradesh--After section 13 of the principal Act, add the following:-- "31A. Validation of certain minimum rates of wages.-- (1) The rates of minimum wages fixed or revised in respect of employement Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11 in Part I of the Schedule to the principal Act, under the Government of Madhya Pradesh. Labour Depart­ment Notification Nos. 306 to 309-XVI-58, dated the 30th December, 1958, shall be and shall always be deemed to have been validly fixed or revised and shall be deemed to have come into force on the date mentioned in the said notifications, notwithstanding any judicial decision to the contrary or any defect or irregularity in the constitution of the Advisory Board under section 7 of the principal Act read with section 9 thereof or publication of the notifications in the Gazette or non-compliance with any other requirement of law and shall not be called in question in any court merely on the ground that there was failure to comply with.....

Payment of Wages Act, 1936 Section 15

Title: Claims Arising out of Deductions from Wages or Delay in Payment of Wages and Penalty for Malicious or Vexatious Claims

State: Central

Year: 1936

.....special order, provide for the distribution or allocation of work to be performed by them under this Act.]] ____________________ * Inserted by Act 53 of 1964, section 13 w.e.f. 1-2-1965. ** Substituted by Act 53 of 1964, section 13, for "of persons employed or paid in that area" w.e.f. 1-2-1965. 2. Substituted by Act 53 of 1964, section 13, for "six months" w.e.f. 1-2-1965. 3. Substituted vide Payment of Wages (Amendment) Act, 2005. Previous text was When any application under sub-section (2) is entertained, the authority shall hear the applicant and the employer or other person responsible for the payment of wages under section 3, or give them an opportunity of being heard, and, after such further inquiry (if any) as may be necessary, may, without prejudice to any other penalty to which such employer or other person is liable under this Act, direct the refund to the employed person of the amount deducted, or the payment of the delayed wages, together with the payment of such compensation as the authority may think fit, not exceeding ten times the amount deducted in the former case and *[not exceeding twenty-five rupees in the latter, and even if the amount deducted.....