Dear sir,
I have a confusion regarding whether the minimum rates of wages are for 30 days or 26 days. Also, I would like to know if this includes wages for the weekly off or not.
Kindly update.
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M R Mallikar
Sr. Manager HR Admin.
From India, Mumbai
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I have a confusion regarding whether the minimum rates of wages are for 30 days or 26 days. Also, I would like to know if this includes wages for the weekly off or not.
Kindly update.
Regards,
M R Mallikar
Sr. Manager HR Admin.
From India, Mumbai
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Dear, Minimum rates of Wages are 26 Days - For daily Wager Minimum rates of Wages are 30 Days - For Monthly Wager Regards, Atul T.
From India, New Delhi
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Minimum wages are calculated for 26 days. The board computes the wages taking into account the rest days as well. For further information, please refer to the following rule (marked as red).
Weekly Day of Rest
Subject to the provisions of this rule, an employee in a scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed under the Act shall be allowed a day of rest every week (hereinafter referred to as "the rest day"), which shall ordinarily be Sunday, but the employer may fix any other day of the week as the rest day for any employee or class of employees in that scheduled employment:
PROVIDED that the employee has worked in the scheduled employment under the same employer for a continuous period of not less than six days:
PROVIDED FURTHER that the employee shall be informed of the day fixed as the rest day and of any subsequent change in the rest day before the change is effected, by the display of a notice to that effect in the place of employment at the place specified by the Inspector in this behalf.
Explanation: For the purpose of computation of the continuous period of not less than six days specified in the first proviso to this sub-rule –
(a) any day on which an employee is required to attend for work but is given only an allowance for attendance and is not provided with work,
(b) any day on which an employee is laid off on payment of compensation under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, and
(c) any leave or holiday, with or without pay, granted by the employer to an employee in the period of six days immediately preceding the rest day,
shall be deemed to be days on which the employee has worked.
Any such employee shall not be required or allowed to work in a scheduled employment on the rest day unless he has or will have a substituted rest day for a whole day on one of the five days immediately before or after the rest day:
PROVIDED that no substitution shall be made which will result in the employee working for more than ten days consecutively without a rest day for a whole day.
Where, in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this rule, any employee works on a rest day and has been given a substituted rest day on any one of the five days before or after the rest day, the rest day shall, for the purpose of calculating the weekly hours of work, be included in the week in which the substituted rest day occurs.
An employee shall be granted for rest day wages calculated at the rate applicable to the next preceding day, and in case he works on the rest day and has been given a substituted rest day, he shall be paid wages for the rest day on which he worked at the overtime rate and wages for the substituted rest day at the rate applicable to the next preceding day:
PROVIDED that where the minimum daily rate of wages of the employee as notified under the Act has been worked out by dividing the minimum monthly rate of wages by twenty-six, or where the actual daily rate of wages of the employee has been worked out by dividing the monthly rate of wages by twenty-six and such actual daily rate of wages is not less than the notified minimum daily rate of wages of the employee, no wages for the rest day shall be payable, and in case the employee works on the rest day and has been given a substituted rest day, he shall be paid only for the rest day on which he worked, an amount equal to the wages payable to him at the overtime rate; and if any dispute arises whether the daily rate of wages has been worked out as aforesaid, the Chief Labour Commissioner may, on application made to him in this behalf, decide the same, after giving an opportunity to the parties concerned to make written representations:
PROVIDED FURTHER that in the case of an employee governed by a piece-rate scheme, the wages for the rest day, or, as the case may be, the rest day, and the substituted rest day, shall be such as the Central Government may, by notification in the Gazette of India, prescribe, having regard to the minimum rate of wages fixed under the Act, in respect of the Scheduled employment.
Explanation: In this sub-rule 'next preceding day' means the last day on which the employee has worked, which precedes the rest day or the substituted rest day, as the case may be, and where the substituted rest day falls on a day immediately after the rest day, the next preceding day means the last day on which the employee has worked, which precedes the rest day.
The provisions of this rule shall not operate to the prejudice of more favorable terms, if any, to which an employee may be entitled under any other law or under the terms of any award, agreement, or contract of service, and in such a case, the employee shall be entitled only to more favorable terms aforesaid.
Explanation: For the purposes of this rule, 'week' shall mean a period of seven days beginning at midnight on Saturday night.
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75Weekly Day of Rest
Subject to the provisions of this rule, an employee in a scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed under the Act shall be allowed a day of rest every week (hereinafter referred to as "the rest day"), which shall ordinarily be Sunday, but the employer may fix any other day of the week as the rest day for any employee or class of employees in that scheduled employment:
PROVIDED that the employee has worked in the scheduled employment under the same employer for a continuous period of not less than six days:
PROVIDED FURTHER that the employee shall be informed of the day fixed as the rest day and of any subsequent change in the rest day before the change is effected, by the display of a notice to that effect in the place of employment at the place specified by the Inspector in this behalf.
Explanation: For the purpose of computation of the continuous period of not less than six days specified in the first proviso to this sub-rule –
(a) any day on which an employee is required to attend for work but is given only an allowance for attendance and is not provided with work,
(b) any day on which an employee is laid off on payment of compensation under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, and
(c) any leave or holiday, with or without pay, granted by the employer to an employee in the period of six days immediately preceding the rest day,
shall be deemed to be days on which the employee has worked.
Any such employee shall not be required or allowed to work in a scheduled employment on the rest day unless he has or will have a substituted rest day for a whole day on one of the five days immediately before or after the rest day:
PROVIDED that no substitution shall be made which will result in the employee working for more than ten days consecutively without a rest day for a whole day.
Where, in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this rule, any employee works on a rest day and has been given a substituted rest day on any one of the five days before or after the rest day, the rest day shall, for the purpose of calculating the weekly hours of work, be included in the week in which the substituted rest day occurs.
An employee shall be granted for rest day wages calculated at the rate applicable to the next preceding day, and in case he works on the rest day and has been given a substituted rest day, he shall be paid wages for the rest day on which he worked at the overtime rate and wages for the substituted rest day at the rate applicable to the next preceding day:
PROVIDED that where the minimum daily rate of wages of the employee as notified under the Act has been worked out by dividing the minimum monthly rate of wages by twenty-six, or where the actual daily rate of wages of the employee has been worked out by dividing the monthly rate of wages by twenty-six and such actual daily rate of wages is not less than the notified minimum daily rate of wages of the employee, no wages for the rest day shall be payable, and in case the employee works on the rest day and has been given a substituted rest day, he shall be paid only for the rest day on which he worked, an amount equal to the wages payable to him at the overtime rate; and if any dispute arises whether the daily rate of wages has been worked out as aforesaid, the Chief Labour Commissioner may, on application made to him in this behalf, decide the same, after giving an opportunity to the parties concerned to make written representations:
PROVIDED FURTHER that in the case of an employee governed by a piece-rate scheme, the wages for the rest day, or, as the case may be, the rest day, and the substituted rest day, shall be such as the Central Government may, by notification in the Gazette of India, prescribe, having regard to the minimum rate of wages fixed under the Act, in respect of the Scheduled employment.
Explanation: In this sub-rule 'next preceding day' means the last day on which the employee has worked, which precedes the rest day or the substituted rest day, as the case may be, and where the substituted rest day falls on a day immediately after the rest day, the next preceding day means the last day on which the employee has worked, which precedes the rest day.
The provisions of this rule shall not operate to the prejudice of more favorable terms, if any, to which an employee may be entitled under any other law or under the terms of any award, agreement, or contract of service, and in such a case, the employee shall be entitled only to more favorable terms aforesaid.
Explanation: For the purposes of this rule, 'week' shall mean a period of seven days beginning at midnight on Saturday night.
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Dear Sir, we are calculating the total salary per month divided by 26 days ( less 4 sundays) for per day salary for lop. Is it right?
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• Whenever salary/wages are mentioned as payable per day, they are payable for actual working days only and not for weekly offs.
• Whenever salary/wages are mentioned as payable per month, it is payable for a calendar month, which is inclusive of weekly offs.
• To find the monthly salary in case of per day salary, multiply it by the actual working days in a month, excluding weekly offs.
• Maharashtra Minimum Wages are on a per month basis. To find out the minimum wages payable to a daily rated employee, they will be divided by the actual number of working days in a month, excluding weekly offs (say 26 days).
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From India, Pune
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• Whenever salary/wages are mentioned as payable per month, it is payable for a calendar month, which is inclusive of weekly offs.
• To find the monthly salary in case of per day salary, multiply it by the actual working days in a month, excluding weekly offs.
• Maharashtra Minimum Wages are on a per month basis. To find out the minimum wages payable to a daily rated employee, they will be divided by the actual number of working days in a month, excluding weekly offs (say 26 days).
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From India, Pune
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please refer to your state rules to determine how to compute minimum wages. in maharashtra it is for 26 days
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There is a lot of confusion regarding the payment of wages. If a worker is being paid on a daily wage basis, then he is entitled to 26 days' pay in a month. The question arises whether his rest days should be paid or unpaid in the case of Punjab State.
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From India, Mumbai
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