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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 Maharashtra Unemployment Allowance to Workmen in Factories (for Temporary Period) Act, 1976 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1976

.....Badli card and who is employed in a factory in place of another workman who is temporarily absent and whose name is borne on the muster roll of the factory; (b) "factory" means any premises including precincts thereof wherein ten or more workers are working or were working on any day of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which a manufacturing process is being carried on with the aid of power, or is ordinarily so carried on, but does not include a factory in respect of which the Central Government is the appropriate Government in relation to industrial disputes concerning it under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947; (c) "Manager" means the person who is for the time being managing the factory, and includes any other officer duly authorised by the employer to act as Manager, such authorisation being notified to the workmen by displaying it on the notice board of the factory; (d) "permanent workman" means a workman who has been employed on a permanent basis or whose appointment has been confirmed in writing by the Manager or by a person duly authorised in this behalf by the Manager, and includes a workman who has completed a probationary period of three months in the.....

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).....

Minimum Wages Act, 1948 Section 4

Title: Minimum Rate of Wages

State: Central

Year: 1948

.....at concession rates, where so authorised; or (iii) an all-inclusive rate allowing for the basic rate, the cost of living allowance and the cash value of the concessions, if any. (2) The cost of living allowance and the cash value of the concessions in respect of supplies of essential commodities at concession rates shall be computed by the competent authority at such intervals and in accordance with such directions as may be specified or given by the appropriate Government. STATE AMENDMENT Madhya Pradesh--(1) In its application to the State of Madhya Pradesh section 11 of the principal Act is to be renumbered as section 4A. [Vide M.P. Act 23 of 1961, sec. 21 (w.e.f. 23-6-1961)]

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 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.....