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Salary

a recompense or consideration generally periodically made to a person for his service in another person's business; also wages, stipend, or annual allowance. See RECEIPT. An agreed compensation for services esp. pro-fessional or some professional services usu.

Truck Acts (1831 to 1896)

Act, 1831, the Truck Amendment Act, 1887, and the Truck Act, 1896, passed to prevent the payment of wages in goods instead of in money. The plan had been for masters to establish warehouses or shops, and

Employee

of the University, Mizoram University Act, 2000. s. 2(i). Means any person (other than an apprentice) employed on wages, in any establishment, factory, mine oilfield, plantation, port, railway company or shop to do any skilled, semi-skilled, or

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Bonus

matter of bounty gratuitously made by the employer to his employees; nor is it a matter of deferred wages. It has been held by this Court in Muir Mills Co. Ltd. v. Suti Mills Mazdoor Union, Kanpur,

Factory

piece, should be entitled to have supplied to them with their work 'sufficient particulars of the rate of wages at which they are entitled to be paid;' and by the (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1895, which

Workman

such a person ceases to be a workman. Such a person is not a workman if he draws wages in excess of Rs. 500 per month or if he performs managerial functions by reason of a power

Wrongful dismissal

AC 118; and see Measures, Ltd. v. Measures, (1910) 2 Ch 248, in which case he can recover wages actually earned on a quantum meruit [see Cutter v. Powell, (1795) 6 Term Rep 320, and Notes, Sm.

scale

scale : a set of graduated wage rates ;also : a wage consistent with such rates compare minimum wage

Bonded labour system

or for the benefit of the creditor, for a specified period or for an unspecified period, either without wages or for nominal wages, or (2) forfeit the freedom of employment or other means of livelihood for a

Minimum wage

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

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