To arrive at the wage rates, the group will look into the international best practices on the wages and evolve a scientific criteria and methodology for fixation of wages. The expert group is chaired by Prof Ajit Mishra, Director, Institute of Economic Growth.
The Lok Sabha has already passed the bill with almost all the parties supporting it. Terming the move as historic and saying that it will ensure minimum and timely payment of wages to workers engaged in agriculture, security guards, women working as domestic help among others, Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar said that the proposed law will bring all of them in the ambit of minimum wages.
This is part of the government's efforts to move aggressively on labour reforms -- to bring equity in wages across sectors and take into account the fact that over 90 per cent of the workforce is in the unorganised sector.
In what could be a significant improvement over existing wage rules, the government is likely to extend the applicability of the Minimum Wages Act to all forms of employment and workers in both the organised and the unorganised sectors.
New Delhi: Centre government is considering raising the minimum wages to Rs 15,000 across all the industry sectors in the country. The BJP led government's act will effectively double the income of workers across 45
New Delhi: Upholding an order of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), a Delhi court here has asked an employer to pay a compensation of Rs 60,840 to a minor maid for making her work for
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