Employers’ checklist for minimum wages

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The employer must pay every employee wages as fixed by the Government.

(a)  Wages must be paid in cash.

(b) For the fixation of minimum wages, the employment must have been in Schedule originally or added to the Schedule by a notification under Section 27 of the Act.

(c) The employer can take actual work on any day up to nine hours in a 12 hours shift, but he must pay double the rate for any hour or part of an hour of actual work in excess of nine hours or for more than 48 hours in any week.

(d) Once a minimum wage is fixed according to the provisions of the Act, the employer must pay to every employee engaged in a Scheduled employment, minimum wages notification for that class of employees.

(e) The employer should fix wage-period for the payment of wages at intervals not exceeding one month or such other larger period as may be prescribed.

(f)  The employer should pay wages on a working day within seven days of the end of wage period or within 10 days if 1000 or more persons are employed in an establishment.

(g) The employer should pay the wages to a person discharged not later than the second working day after his discharge.

(h)  Every employer should maintain a register of wages at workplace specifying the following particulars for each wage period in respect of each employed person :

        i.      Minimum rate of wages payable;

       ii.     The number of days in which overtime was worked;

      iii.     The gross wages;

      iv.    The wages actually paid and the date of payment.

                                                
(i)   Every employer should get the signature or the thumb impression of every person employed on the wage book and the wage slips.

(j)  The employer should exhibit at main entrance to the establishment and its offices, a notice in respect of the following in English and local language:

     i.     Minimum rates of wages;

    ii.     Abstracts of the Acts and rules made there under;

    iii.    Name and address of the Labour Inspector/ Asst. Commissioner of Labour etc.