| Home E-Citizen Act & Rules The Minimum Wages Act, 1948 & The Minimum Wages (Gujarat) Rules 1961 Salient Features of the Act |
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Salient Features of the Act |
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| Definition of employer | Section 2(E) | | Definition of wages | Section 2(H) | | Definition of employee | Section 2(I) | | Fixing of minimum rates of wages | Section 3 | | Procedure for fixing & revising minimum wages | Section 5 | | Fixing hours for normal working day, etc | Section 13 | | Overtime | Section 14 | | Wages of workers who works for less than normal working day | Section 15 | | Minimum time rate wages for piece work | Section 17 | | Maintenance of registers and records | Section 18 | | Claim | Section 20 | | Single application in respect of a number of employees | Section 21 | | Exemption of employer from liability in certain cases | Section 23 |
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| Important Judgements |
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1989 LLR 1008
SUPPREME COURT OF INDIA
Hon'ble Mr. D.P. Wadhwa, J.
Hon'ble Mr. M.B. Shah, J. |
Civil Appeal No. 4259 of 1999
Arising out of Special Leave Petition
Civil No. 19993 of 1998
Decided on 4.8.1999 |
Airfreight Ltd.
Vs.
State of Karnataka & Others |
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A. MINIMUM WAGES ACT - Sections 3 and 5 - Notification dated 19.8.1987 extending Act to shops and commercial establishments in Karnataka State by Karnataka Govt.- Payment of pay more than minimum wages would not exclude an establishment from purview of the Act.
HELD.The Notification is made applicable to all shops and commercial establishments in the State of Karnataka where the State has found that the labor was unorganized or that wages paid to the workers were below minimum wages. Hence the plea that the Company is paying more than minimum wages (as alleged) the notification under the Act would not be applicable to it has no force |
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