sacheein
12

Dear All,
Pls enlighten on,
01) Can we hold increament of worker for one year for his misconduct (proved in enquiry) & has it legal base?
02) Fine subject to provison of payment of wages Act for misconduct pls explain.
Regards
Sacheein

From India, Mumbai
rajanlawfirm
6

Dear

All this should happen within the Standing Orders of your concern.The Payment of Wages Act, 1936 Sec 8 provides for it.



8. Fines -

(1) No fine shall be imposed on any employed person save in respect of such acts and omissions on his part as the employer with the previous approval of the State Government or of the prescribed authority may have specified by notice under sub-section (2).

(2) A notice specifying such acts and omissions shall be exhibited in the prescribed manner on the premises in which the employment carried on or in the case of persons employed upon a railway (otherwise than in a factory) at the prescribed place or places.

(3) No fine shall be imposed on any employed person until he has been given an opportunity of showing cause against the fine or otherwise than in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed for the imposition of fines.

(4) The total amount of fine which may be imposed in any one wage-period on any employed person shall not exceed an amount equal to three per cent of the wages payable to him in respect of that wage-period.

(5) No fine shall be imposed on any employed person who is under the age of fifteen years.

(6) No fine imposed on any employed person shall be recovered from him by installments or after the expiry of sixty days from the day on which it was imposed.

(7) Every fine shall be deemed to have been imposed on the day of the act or omission in respect of which it was imposed.

(8) All fines and all realisations thereof shall be recorded in a register to be kept by the person responsible for the payment of wages under section 3 in such form as may be prescribed; and all such realisations shall be applied only to such purposes beneficial to the persons employed in the factory or establishment as are approved by the prescribed authority.

Explanation : When the persons employed upon or in any railway, factory or industrial or other establishment are part only of a staff employed under the same management all such realisations may be credited to a common fund maintained for the staff as a whole provided that the fund shall be applied only to such purposes as are approved by the prescribed authority.



It will be a 3 % cap on Monthly Salary.

rajanlawfirm

Pls see https://www.citehr.com/285737-legal-...-industry.html

From India, Madras
kumaresank
18

If the Certified Standing Order of the company provides for the withhold of increment for an year or more/less, then it would can be imposed
From India, Tiruchchirappalli
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