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Minimum wage. The Trade Boards Act, 1909, established for the first time a minimum wage in certain trades. The (English) Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act, 1912, made provision for the settlement of minimum rates of wages for workmen employed underground in coal mines. The principle has been extended to many industries during the war and after, and to agriculture by the Corn Production Act,1917 (repealed). See TRADE BOARDS.In relation to any area, means to minimum wage fixed by the State Government under s. 3 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948) for agricultural labourer as applicable in that area [National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (42 of 2005), s. 2(h)]...
minimum wage
minimum wage : a wage fixed by contract or esp. by law as the least that may be paid either to employees generally or to a particular category of employees compare scale ...
Fair wages
Fair wages, mean between the living wage and the minimum wage and even the minimum wage contemplated above is something more than the bare minimum or subsistence wage which would be sufficient to cover the bare physical needs of the worker and his family, a wage which would provide also for the provide also for the preserva-tion of the efficiency of the worker and for some measure of education, medical requirements and amenities, Express Newspaper (P) Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1958 SC 578 (602)....
Nominal wages
Nominal wages, in relation to any labour, means a wages which is less than,--(a) the minimum wages fixed by the Government, in relation to the same or similar labour, under any law for the time being in force; and(b) where no such minimum wage has been fixed in relation to any form of labour, the wages that are normally paid, for the same or similar labour, to the labourers working in the same locality. [Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 (19 of 1976) s. 2 (i)]...
Double the ordinary rate of wages
Double the ordinary rate of wages, by using the phrase 'double the ordinary rate of wages' the rule-making authority seems to us to have intended that the worker should be the recipient of double the remuneration which he, in fact, ordinarily receives and not double the rate of minimum wages fixed for him under the Act, Y.A momarde v. Authority, AIR 1972 SC 1721 (1726). [Madhya Pradesh Minimum Wages Rules (1951), s. 25(1)(b)]...
Ordinary rate of wages
Ordinary rate of wages, the word 'ordinary' used in Rule 25 reflects the actuality rather than the worker's minimum entitlement under the Act, Y.A. Mamarade v. Authority, AIR 1972 SC 1721 (1726): (1972) 2 SCC 108. [Minimum Wages Central Rules, 1960, Rules 25(1)]...
Coal mine
Coal mine, The expression 'no person, other than the Central Government or a government company or a corporation owned, managed or control in India, in any form' is semantically sweeping and is wide in meaning so as to spare no class of coal, including even coking coal, because coking coal is a species of coal, coal itself being the genus. A definition of 'coal mine' in the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973. S. 2(b) of the Act defines coal mine to mean 'a mine in which there exists one or more seams of coal'. It is apparent that even a coking coal mine is a coal mine because the definition is broad, Mahindra Nath Shukla v. State of Bihar, (1980) 3 SCR 595: (1980) 3 SCC 353: AIR 1980 SC 1308 (1311). [Coal Mines (Nationalisa-tion Act (26 of 1973) s. 2 (b)]The (English) Coal Mines Act 1911, (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 50), repealing and reenacting, with alterations, a great part of the existing law, and itself amended by the (English) Coal Mines Act, 1914 (4 & 5Geo. 5, c. 22), contains a set o...
Cost of living index number
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 the Official Gazette to be the cost of living index number applicable to employees in such employment. [Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), s. 2 (d)]...
Forced labour
Forced labour, where a person provides labour or service to another for remuneration which is less than the minimum wage, the labour or service provided by him clearly falls within the meaning of the words 'forced labour' and attracts the condemnation of Article 23, Sanjit Roy v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1983 SC 328 (332). (Constitution of India, Article 23)It may be physical force which may compel a person to provide labour or service to another or it may be force exerted through a legal provision such as a provision for imprisonment or fine in case the employee fails to provide labour or service or it may even be compulsion arising from hunger and poverty, want and destitution. Any factor which deprives a person of a choice of alternatives and compels him to adopt one particular course of action may properly be regarded as 'force' and if labour or service is compelled as a result of such 'force', it would be 'forced labour'. Where a person provides labour or service to another for rem...
statewide average weekly wage (saww)
statewide average weekly wage (saww) The statewide average weekly wage is a computation of average wages paid to workers in a jurisdiction for a set period of time and is generally used to calculate the minimum, and maximum, amounts of workers' compensation benefits that an injured employee will be entitled to receive. ...
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