Understanding Minimum Wages in Tailoring: How to Handle Pay and Penalties for Trainees?

1. How to differentiate tailoring, knitting, hosiery industry for determining minimum wages applicable?

2. What will be the penalty if paid less than minimum wages for raw workers during the training period?

The first part of the question is unclear. What exactly do you wish to know? Tailoring is for those making garments from cloth. Knitting and hosiery are basically machine-driven manufacture of specific types of cloth.

Penalty for Paying Less Than Minimum Wages

The penalty for paying less than minimum wages is that you will be liable to pay the differential wages in arrears, up to 3 years back. Besides, the court is free to award interest on the arrears. The penalty apart from this would be ₹7500. I am not sure whether it's per incident (month) or per person per month.