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Wage rate, means the wage rate referred to in s. 6. [National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (42 of 2005), s. 2(s)]...
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)]...
scale
scale : a set of graduated wage rates ;also : a wage consistent with such rates compare minimum wage ...
Minimum wage
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has been extended to many industries during the war and after, and to agriculture by the Corn Production Act,1917 (repealed).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)]...
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)]...
Scale
Scale, 1. a progression of degrees, esp. a range of wage rates 2. A wage according to a range of rates 3. An instrument for weighing 4. In the practice of English Supreme Court of Judicature, the fee charged by solicitor for a particular type of case, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1345....
index
index : a numerical measure or indicator (as of inflation or economic performance) see also consumer price index vt : to link (as wages, rates, or investments) to an index [under the contract wages were ed to inflation] ...
Wages
Wages, if the remuneration is to be paid daily or weekly, it can be called wages. But when it is monthly remuneration payable on the last day of the month or after that date, and when the remuneration considering the general standards of payments is fairly high, then it has to be understood as salary, K.V.V. Sharma (in re), (1952) 2 Mad LJ 917.Includes any bonus or other additional remunera-tion etc., and any sum 'payable to such person by reason of the termination of his employment, A.R. Sarin v. B.C. Patil, AIR 1951 Bom 423.Means remuneration payable to an employee under an award or settlement, Purshottam v. Potdar, AIR 1966 SC 856.Means remuneration which an employer is liable to pay, if the term of the contract of employment are fulfilled. In other words, they are payments made by an employer for services rendered, G.M. Joshi v. First Civil Judge, AIR 1958 Bom 262.Wages, ought to include gratuity as well, Tirjugi Sitaram v. Badlu Prasad Bheru Prasad, AIR 1962 MP 361.The compensatio...
Basic wages
Basic wages, means all emoluments which are earned by an employee while on duty or on leave or on holidays with wages in either case in accordance with the terms of the contract of employment and which are paid or payable in cash to him, but does not include-(i) the cash value of any food concession; (ii) any dearness allowance (that is to say, all cash payments by whatever name called paid to an employee on account of a rise in the cost of living), house-rent allowance, overtime allowance, bonus commission or any other similar allowance payable to the employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment; (iii) any presents made by the employer. [Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (19 of 1952), s. 2 (b)]The phrase 'basic wages' is ordinarily understood to mean that part of the price of labour, which the employer must pay to all workmen belonging to all categories. The phrase is used ordinarily in marked contra-distinction to 'dearness ...
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)....
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