Why is it necessary to fix a minimum wage?
5 years, 1 month ago

Why is it necessary to fix a minimum wage?

The Hindu  

The story so far: On August 8, the President gave his assent to the Code on Wages, 2019, that had earlier been approved by Parliament. Following the consultation, the Centre will notify the rules that will create the mechanisms to fix a floor wage that would then undergird the minimum wages for different categories of workers — unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled and highly skilled — that the States and Central government would have to set and enforce. The Code acknowledges that the aim in setting the floor wage is to ensure “minimum living standards” for workers and the draft rules incorporate criteria declared in a landmark judgment of the Supreme Court in 1992 as well as recommendations of the 15th Indian Labour Conference. While a national minimum wage of ₹176 per day had been recommended in 2017, an expert committee constituted by the Labour Ministry had in February this year recommended that a “need based national minimum wage for India” ought to be fixed at ₹375 per day. Such a statutory national minimum wage would have multiple impacts including helping lift wage levels and reducing wage inequality, thus furthering inclusive growth, according to the survey.

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Odisha govt hikes minimum wages of workers, BJD calls it rehash of notification
6 months ago

Odisha govt hikes minimum wages of workers, BJD calls it rehash of notification

Hindustan Times  

The Odisha government led by chief minister Mohan Majhi in its second Cabinet meeting on Wednesday announced a hike in the daily minimum wages of workers in various categories, but the decision triggered a controversy with Opposition Biju Janata Dal alleging that the new government is merely rehashing an old notification. However, BJD leaders said the Cabinet decision is just …

Why just Mahalakshmis? A job scheme to guarantee Rs 1 lakh a year for every poor family
8 months, 1 week ago

Why just Mahalakshmis? A job scheme to guarantee Rs 1 lakh a year for every poor family

New Indian Express  

This year's Congress manifesto for Lok Sabha had promises which the party leaders have termed "revolutionary". One of the big promises under the spotlight currently is the Congress plan to roll out a Mahalakshmi scheme providing Rs 1 lakh per year to every poor Indian family as an unconditional cash transfer. This will ensure around 160 days of employment for …

Data on what Indians earn does have plenty to reveal of poverty in India
9 months, 1 week ago

Data on what Indians earn does have plenty to reveal of poverty in India

Live Mint  

Even though the fact-sheet on the Consumption Expenditure Survey has been officially released, the debate on poverty is far from over. For all of India, it would imply a poverty line of ₹445 per day, slightly higher than the government notified minimum wages. This was only ₹310 per day in case of agricultural workers, lower than the estimate reported by …

Can India Ensure Living Wages at a Time When Workers Struggle for Minimum Wage?
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Can India Ensure Living Wages at a Time When Workers Struggle for Minimum Wage?

The Quint  

Recruitment happened through middlemen, the pay was based on piecework, and most workers preferred daily wages to avoid deductions for benefits from their already meagre income of Rs 300. Even though company hostels provided them with shelter, migrant workers were still classified as daily wage earners, receiving no benefits. Although these workers perform industrial work, qualifying them as organised sector …

Increase minimum wage to Rs 26,000 per month: CITU
2 years, 1 month ago

Increase minimum wage to Rs 26,000 per month: CITU

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: All India general secretary of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions Tapan Sen demanded that the government revise the minimum wage to Rs 26,000 according to the hike in prices in the present conditions as per the Supreme Court verdict against the present minimum wage of Rs 18,000 per month which was recommended by the 6th Pay Commission. Sen …

Delhi government hikes minimum wage. Check revised monthly salary here
2 years, 3 months ago

Delhi government hikes minimum wage. Check revised monthly salary here

Live Mint  

India has registered a five month surge in retail inflation, recording 7.41% in September. At such a time Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has informed that the Delhi government has decided to raise the minimum wage for unskilled workers, skilled workers and semi-skilled workers. "Increase in minimum wages will give respite to the labour class suffering from the adverse …

4-day work-week, change in salary: India's new labour codes likely in FY 2022-23
3 years ago

4-day work-week, change in salary: India's new labour codes likely in FY 2022-23

Hindustan Times  

India is likely to implement four new labour codes on wages, social security, industrial relations, and occupational safety by the next fiscal year beginning 2022, according to a senior government official cited by the PTI news agency. If the new labour codes are implemented, there's a likelihood that employees in India may be able to enjoy a four-day workweek from …

Why minimum wage won’t fix India’s woes
5 years, 5 months ago

Why minimum wage won’t fix India’s woes

Live Mint  

Hyderabad: The new Parliament passed the Code on Wages Bill, 2019 mandating a minimum wage across the country in its first session itself. India’s minimum wage system, according to the Economic Survey 2018-19, comprises of 1,915 minimum wages defined for various scheduled job categories across different states in the country. The 15th Indian Labour Conference more than 60 years ago …

Most regular jobs in India don’t pay well: PLFS
5 years, 5 months ago

Most regular jobs in India don’t pay well: PLFS

Live Mint  

The much-awaited report of the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2017-18 has highlighted the difficult job situation with 6.1% of India’s labour force, and 17.8% of young people in the labour force reporting to be unemployed. In 2017-18, around 45% of regular workers earned less than ₹10,000 per month, and about 12% earned less than ₹5,000 per month. In rural areas, …

Parliament passes Code on Wages bill to ensure minimum wage
5 years, 5 months ago

Parliament passes Code on Wages bill to ensure minimum wage

The Quint  

New Delhi, Aug 2 The Rajya Sabha on Friday passed the Code on Wages Bill, 2019 which subsumes some British-era labour laws into one code and enables the Centre to fix minimum wages that would benefit almost 500 million workers. Terming the move as historic and saying that it will ensure minimum and timely payment of wages to workers engaged …

No single minimum wage floor under the Wage Code bill
5 years, 5 months ago

No single minimum wage floor under the Wage Code bill

Live Mint  

New Delhi: India will not have a single mandatory minimum wage floor as talked earlier as the the union Labour ministry has stayed away from making it part of the wage code bill. However, after the Union cabinet approved the Wage Code bill, the labour ministry indicated that states will not be allowed to pay less than the minimum national …

What makes minimum wages work
5 years, 5 months ago

What makes minimum wages work

Live Mint  

Earlier this month the Union cabinet approved the Wage Code Bill, which seeks to subsume existing laws related to workers remuneration and enable the government to fix a ‘minimum wage’ for workers. A new paper authored by Vidhya Soundararajan of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore suggests that, ultimately, a minimum wage policy might be only as effective as the level …

₹375 minimum wage plan junked as govt opts for ₹2 hike
5 years, 6 months ago

₹375 minimum wage plan junked as govt opts for ₹2 hike

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The Union cabinet has approved the Wage Code Bill, which raised the national minimum wage by ₹2 to ₹178 per day, despite an internal labour ministry committee recommending a much higher amount of ₹375. The mandatory national minimum wage will not be fixed as per the labour ministry’s expert committee report on minimum wage, two government officials said, …

How government calculates minimum wage
5 years, 6 months ago

How government calculates minimum wage

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The minimum wage for workers off late has gained a traction as the centre is brininging a national mandatory minimum wage under which states wont be able to pay. The 15th Indian Labor Conference in 1957 had determined the need-based minimum wage for a single industrial worker. With the husband assigned 1 unit, wife, 0.8 unit and two …

A national minimum wage can help curb distress migration
5 years, 6 months ago

A national minimum wage can help curb distress migration

Live Mint  

India needs to have a mandatory national-level minimum wage to promote social justice and curb distress migration, said the Economic Survey 2019 tabled in Parliament on Thursday. “An effective minimum wage policy that targets the vulnerable bottom rung of wage earners can help in driving up aggregate demand and building and strengthening the middle class,” chief economic advisor K.V. An …

Opinion | India should not abandon its welfare measures for NYAY
5 years, 9 months ago

Opinion | India should not abandon its welfare measures for NYAY

Live Mint  

Details of the proposed minimum income guarantee scheme have now been released by the Congress. Second, it signifies a break from the earlier approach, which emphasized growth as the best antidote to poverty but reinforces the thinking among some influential economists that the best way to help the poor is to provide them direct income transfers such as a Universal …

If Implemented, Rahul Gandhi's Minimum Income Guarantee Will Cost 2% of India's GDP
5 years, 9 months ago

If Implemented, Rahul Gandhi's Minimum Income Guarantee Will Cost 2% of India's GDP

News 18  

New Delhi: In outlining the Nyuntam Aay Yojana, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has perhaps promised the world’s biggest minimum income guarantee scheme. As per the announcement, the scheme will guarantee an income of Rs 6,000 per month to the poorest of families, benefitting about 25 crore people and costing the exchequer Rs 3.6 lakh crore. Suffice to say that considering …

Opinion | Look beyond unconditional transfers for social security
5 years, 9 months ago

Opinion | Look beyond unconditional transfers for social security

Live Mint  

As transfers to the agricultural sector gain speed and traction, there will inevitably arise a clamour from other sectors of the economy—industry and services—to better their lot. An expert committee recently submitted its report on “Determining the methodology for fixation of the national minimum wage”. This panel has recommended a need-based national minimum wage of ₹375 a day for a …

Panel recommends national minimum wage of ₹9750 per month
5 years, 10 months ago

Panel recommends national minimum wage of ₹9750 per month

Live Mint  

New Delhi: A government panel has recommended a national minimum wage of ₹9,750 per month, or ₹375 per day, plus an additional housing allowance of ₹1,430 per month for workers in cities. “The committee is of the considered view that the single value of the national minimum wage for India should be set at ₹375 per day as of July …

Govt expert committee bats for fixing need-based national minimum wage at Rs 375 per day
5 years, 11 months ago

Govt expert committee bats for fixing need-based national minimum wage at Rs 375 per day

Firstpost  

Apart from proposing the level of a single national minimum wage at an all-India level, the report also estimated and recommended different national minimum wages for different geographical region. New Delhi: An expert committee has recommended fixing the need-based national minimum wage at Rs 375 per day or Rs 9,750 per month as of July 2018, irrespective of sectors, skills, …

Opinion | A minimum wage raise’s effect on employment
6 years, 3 months ago

Opinion | A minimum wage raise’s effect on employment

Live Mint  

One of the enduring policy debates across rich and poor countries is whether or not the government should specify a minimum wage. The unique aspect of our study is that it is the first of its kind to use precise administrative wage data on one million hourly wage employees from over 300 firms spread across 23 different industries to estimate …

Will adopt Centre’s wage slabs in Delhi, says AAP govt
6 years, 5 months ago

Will adopt Centre’s wage slabs in Delhi, says AAP govt

Hindustan Times  

The Aam Aadmi Party government on Thursday said it will adopt the central government’s minimum wage slabs so that scheduled employees in the national capital are not impacted by the recent high court order quashing the Delhi government’s proposal for revised minimum wages. Labour minister Gopal Rai told reporters on Thursday the minimum wages offered by the central government are …

Delhi minimum wage issue: Hopes of better pay dashed, workers put dreams on hold
6 years, 5 months ago

Delhi minimum wage issue: Hopes of better pay dashed, workers put dreams on hold

Hindustan Times  

In December 2017, the salary account of Prakash Yadav, who works as a helper with the administrative department of Delhi Disaster Management Authority, was credited with Rs 3,206 more than his usual pay. Though the order fixing the minimum wages in Delhi was implemented in 2017, the high court had said the government cannot take any coercive action against employers …

Delhi high court quashes AAP govt’s notification fixing higher minimum wages for workers
6 years, 5 months ago

Delhi high court quashes AAP govt’s notification fixing higher minimum wages for workers

Hindustan Times  

In a blow to Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party government, the Delhi high court on Saturday quashed a notification fixing higher minimum wages for unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled workers in the city on grounds that it was unconstitutional. Reacting to the judgment, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said his government had provided relief to poor labourers from inflation by hiking …

Breaking: Delhi High Court Quashes Govt. Notification Revising Minimum Wage [Read Judgment]
6 years, 5 months ago

Breaking: Delhi High Court Quashes Govt. Notification Revising Minimum Wage [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

In a huge blow to the AAP government, the Delhi High Court on Saturday quashed its much-touted March 2017 order revising the minimum wages for all classes of workmen in scheduled employment, opining that the same was ultra vires Article 14 of the Constitution of India.The Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar further opined …

Delhi High Court sets aside AAP govt order revising minimum wages
6 years, 5 months ago

Delhi High Court sets aside AAP govt order revising minimum wages

India TV News  

In a blow to the AAP government, the Delhi High Court today quashed its March 2017 notification revising minimum wages for all classes of workmen in all scheduled employment, saying the decision was ultra vires the Constitution. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar also quashed the Delhi government notification setting up a advisory …

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