Minimum wages aplicability

minimum wages applicable to charitable hospital or not ?

Dear Gitesh,

The philosophy behind fixation of statutory minimum wages in respect of the scheduled employments is to enable the employee to retain his ability or efficiency required to perform his job apart from meeting the survival needs of his family and self. Therefore, the capacity of the employer to pay is not of much importance. If the hospital is run entirely for charity, the cost of employment of the employees automatically gets included in the cost of charity. Better you please go through the amended definition of the term 'industry' u/s 2(j) of the Industrial Disputes Act,1947.

Dear Member,
If the appropriate Govt. has enlisted your employment in schedule employments list & have also declared the minimum rates of wages for employees then you are to pay minimum rates of wages so announced to your employees.
R N KHOLA