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ABHISHEK KUMAR
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Code on wages 2019
• The Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India has notified the Code on
Wages, 2019 on August 8, 2019, which seeks to amend and consolidate the laws
relating to wages and bonus.
• The Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India has notified the Code on
Wages, 2019 (the "Code") on August 8, 2019, which seeks to amend and
consolidate the laws relating to wages and bonus.
• The Code intends to simplify and rationalise the relevant provisions of the
following four central labour enactments relating to wages, namely:–
The Payment of Wages Act, 1936
The Minimum Wages Act, 1948
The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
Highlights of the code
Coverage
The Code extends:-
• To all establishments where any industry, trade, business, manufacturing or
occupation is carried out which includes Government establishments.
• To all kinds of employees irrespective of wage limit whether skilled, un-skilled,
manual, supervisory, managerial, administrative, technical or clerical across all
sectors whether organised or un-organised.
• To all kinds of employers i.e. any person who employs one or more employees.
• For instance, the wage limit of INR 24,000 per month for the applicability of the
Payment of Wages Act, 1936 has been removed.
• Many unorganised sector workers who were out of the ambit of minimum
wages Act will now get legislative protection of minimum wages under the
Code.
Floor wage
Payment of bonus
The Code empowers the appropriate government to determine the
ceiling of wage limit for the purpose of eligibility of bonus and
calculation of bonus, by notification, which will make it easier to
revise the ceilings.
Limitation period for claims
• The Code provides that the wages to employees may also be paid by
cheque or through digital or electronic mode or by crediting it in the
bank account of the employee.
• In this era of the gig-economy where monthly basis payments are less
relevant and increasingly more number of employees are migrating
out of the formal sector, this is a welcome inclusion.
• This scheme departs from the one under the Payment of Wages Act
which merely mentions that a wage period shall not exceed one
month, and prescribes two different time limits for payment of wages
based on the number of employees in an establishment.
Equal Remuneration
• Consistent with the Equal Remuneration Act, the Code, inter-alia, includes
provisions prohibiting discrimination on grounds of gender-
• (i) with respect to wages by employers, with respect to same work or work of a
similar nature done by employees .a
• (ii) with respect to recruitment of employees for same work or work of a similar
nature.
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