Understanding Job Categories: How Does the Minimum Wages Act Classify Workers?

Adoni Suguresh
List of Job Categories Under the Minimum Wages Act

Here is a list of the nature of jobs categorized as unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled, and highly skilled, as contemplated under the Minimum Wages Act.
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As far as I know, no statutory definitions are available for the terms unskilled, semiskilled, skilled, and highly skilled. These terms indicate the nature of jobs or work performed by the concerned workmen, mostly with reference to the levels of skill or experience required for their normal performance.

Unskilled Work

Unskilled work is that which requires no special training and involves the performance of simple duties that require the exercise of little or no independent judgment or previous experience, although familiarity with the occupational environment is necessary.

Semiskilled Work

Semiskilled work is one that requires sufficient knowledge of the particular trade in order to do repetitive or simple operations using simple tools and machines.

Skilled Work

Skilled work requires requisite training or sufficient experience enabling the incumbent the capability to work independently and efficiently according to the established standards.

Highly Skilled Work

Highly skilled work is that type of work which requires supervisory ability apart from skill or competence of an extraordinary degree.
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