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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 ...
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)]...
Fifteen day's wages
Fifteen day's wages, In any factory it is well known that an employee never works and could never be permitted to work for all the 30 days of the month. He gets 52 Sundays in a year as paid holidays and, therefore, the basic wages and dearness allowance are always fixed by taking into consideration this economic reality ..... A worker gets full month's wages not by remaining on duty for all the 30 days within a month but by remaining on work and doing duty for only 26 days. The other extra holidays may make some marginal variation into 26 working days, but all wage boards and wage fixing authorities or tribunals in the country have always followed this pattern of fixation of wages by this method of 26 working days, Digvijay Woollen Mills Ltd. v. Mahendra Prataprai Buch, AIR 1980 SC 1944: (1980) 4 SCC 106: (1981) 1 SCR 64....
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)]...
Average of the basic wage
Average of the basic wage, the expression 'average of the basic wage' can only mean the wage earned by a workman during a month divided by the number of days for which he has worked and multiplied by 26 in order of arrive at the monthly wage for the computation of gratuity payable, Delhi Cloth and General Mills Co Ltd. v. Workers, AIR 1970 SC 919 (938): (1969) 2 SCR 307. [Industrial Disputes Act, (14 of 1947) Sch. 3 item 5]...
Waging war
Waging war, means and can only mean 'waging war in the manner usual in war'. In order to support a conviction on such charge, it is not enough to show that the persons charged have continued to obtain possession of an armoury and have, when called upon to surrender it, used the rifles and ammuni-tion so obtained against the King's troops, Mir Hasan Khan v. State, AIR 1951 Pat 60.The expression 'waging war' means and can only mean waging war in the manner usual in war. In other words, in order to support a conviction on such a charge it is not enough to show that the persons charged have contrived to obtain posses-sion of armoury and have, when called upon to surrender it, used the rifles and ammunition so obtained against the government troops. It must also be shown that the seizure of the armoury was part and parcel of a planned operation and that their intention in resisting the troops of the Government was to overwhelm and defeat these troops and then to go on and crush any further ...
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. ...
average weekly wage (aww)
average weekly wage (aww) The AWW is another method which may be utilized in calculating entitlement to wage loss benefits. The average earnings, by week, for a fixed period of time are calculated and wage loss benefits are computed according to that amount. ...
Wages, salaries and other dues of the employees
Wages, salaries and other dues of the employees, expression 'wages, salaries and other dues of the employees' in s. 5(2) includes bonus, Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh v. Model Mills, AIR 1984 SC 1813: (1984) Supp SCC 443: (1985) 1 SCR 751....
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