How Do the New Minimum Wage Rates in UP Affect Unskilled and Skilled Workers Starting January 2011?

An unskilled laborer would receive Rs 4,503 per month or Rs 173 per day. The revised wages will be effective from January 1, 2011. Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Shiv Charan Sharma, stated that for an unskilled laborer, the monthly wages would be Rs 4,502.98 and the daily wages Rs 173.19.

For a semi-skilled category A worker, these amounts would be Rs 4,632.98 and Rs 178.19 respectively, and for a semi-skilled category B laborer, the wages would be Rs 4,762.98 per month and Rs 183.19 per day. In the skilled (A) category, these figures would be Rs 4,892.98 and Rs 188.19.

Dear Members,

It is clarified that these rates will be in force w.e.f. 01.01.2011 for the employees working with different scheduled employments in the State of Haryana and not in UP. It seems that in the title, it is wrongly written as UP, while this should be written as Haryana. The Minister of State, as named, also belongs to Haryana.

R.N.KHOLA