The Payment Of Wages (amendment) Act, 2017 - PDF Download

The Central government has notified the amendment under section 6 of The Payment of Wages Act, 2017, with provision that "the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the industrial or other establishment, the employer of which shall pay to every person employed in such industrial or other establishment, the wages only by cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account.".
It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 28th day of December, 2016
Regards
Jugbir Gahlawat
9560554888

Dear JUGBIR,

Under the Section 6 in the Amendment is given " All wages shall be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or by crediting the wages in the bank account of the employee" .

Here my doubt is you are mentioned in your message is "the wages only by cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account."

From my understanding even now we can avail the wages by cash also, is it correct or not please reply me.

Regards

P.Senthil

HR.

THE PAYMENT OF WAGES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017

NO. 1 OF 2017

[15th February, 2017]

An Act further to amend the Payment of Wages Act, 1936.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as

follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Payment of Wages (Amendment) Act, 2017.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 28th day of December, 2016.

2. For section 6 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, the following section shall be

substituted, namely:—

"6. All wages shall be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or by

crediting the wages in the bank account of the employee:

Provided that the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official

Gazette, specify the industrial or other establishment, the employer of which shall

pay to every person employed in such industrial or other establishment, the wages

only by cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account.".

Where ever the state government issues a notification, wages can no longer be paid in cash.
It then has to be paid by cheque or bank transfer

according to above said notification salary and wages can be paid either cash or through bank account, cheque.
no ban on cash payments.
regards
pardeep sharma
HR OFFICER
NP GROUP
9988666364

Dear sir,
According to amended provisions under Payment of wages Act 2017,and also as laid down under ID Act(Central) as well as under Min. wages Act, wages payment , modes etc everything falls entirely in the ambit of State Govt.and State govt. has been bestowed authority and power through a well organized machinery to administer , execute plan of payments and interfere in matters related to dues payment .
Some states including Uttaranchal has notified that wages shall be paid by cheque or through Bank transfer but other state Govts. including Govt. of UP has not issued any such notification as to how payment will be made. So ,establishments in absence of any such notification from respective States can still continue paying in cash or as they find convenient through other modes.
Regds,

Pardeep,
Read the provisio stated in the original post
If the notification is issued, payment in cash is banned