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Unit 11: Minimum Wages Act, 1948

Any contract or agreement whether made before or after the commencement of this Act, Notes
whereby an employee either relinquishes or reduces his right to a minimum rate of wages
or any privilege or concession accruing to him under this Act, shall be null and void in so
far as it purports to reduce the minimum rate of wages fixed under this Act.

11.10 Keywords

Amount of compensation: When an application is entertained, the authority shall hear the
applicant and the employer, or give them opportunity to be heard.
Employee: Employee means any person who is employed for hire or reward to do any work,
skilled and unskilled, manual and clerical, in a scheduled employment in respect of which
minimum rates of wages have been fixed.

Inspector: Any person required to produce any document or thing or to give any information by
an Inspector under Sec. 19 (2) shall be deemed to be legally bound to do so within the meaning
of Sec. 175 of the Indian Penal Code (Sec. 19 (4)).

Wages: “Wages” means all remuneration, capable of being expressed in terms of money, which
would, if the terms of contract of employment, expressed or implied were fulfilled, be payable
to a person employed,

11.11 Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. In 1929, the ................................................. recommended a policy of gradual introduction of
statutory minimum wages.
2. The Indian Labour Conference at its 5th session approved, in principle, the enactment of
.................................................
3. Minimum rates of wages may be ......................., both for time-rated and piece-rated workers;
and also for over-time work.

4. A ............................. of wages with or without the cost of living allowance, and the cash
value of the concession, in respect of supplies of essential commodities at concession rates
where so authorised.

5. An .................................., allowing for the basic rate, the cost of living allowance, the cash
value of the concession, if any.
6. Consultation with the ...................................... is obligatory for revision of minimum wages
and not initial fixation.
7. A committee appointed under ............................... is only an advisory body. The Government
is not bound to accept its recommendation in every case.
8. An official of the Government can be appointed as an ........................................
9. Minimum wages payable under the Act shall be paid in ...................................
10. A ............................... may be presented on behalf of or in respect of any number of employees
in the scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been
fixed.
11. The Central Government may give directions to a ........................................ regarding the
execution of this Act in the State.

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