Minimum need
11 years, 9 months ago

Minimum need

The Hindu  

Aruna Roy’s decision to terminate her relationship with the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council has returned the spotlight to the ideological divide within the ruling establishment on welfare spending. As the civil rights activist noted in her letter to the Congress president, the rupture came over the Manmohan Singh government’s refusal to pay statutory minimum wages to workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act — admittedly the largest rights-based safety net programme anywhere in the world. Yet in a monumental affront to the father of the nation, it declined to pay minimum wages to MGNREGA workers, arguing that the scheme was designed more as social security for the desperately poor than as regular employment requiring payment of floor-level wages. However, more damagingly for the UPA government, at least two High Courts have held payment of minimum wages to be mandatory, which situation has not altered in view of the Supreme Court’s refusal to stay the Karnataka High Court’s decision. Section 6 of the Act empowers the Central government to notify the wage rate independent of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.

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Employers Not Outsiders But Stakeholders, Must Be Heard While Fixing/Revising Minimum Wage Of Employees: Karnataka High Court
3 months ago

Employers Not Outsiders But Stakeholders, Must Be Heard While Fixing/Revising Minimum Wage Of Employees: Karnataka High Court

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The Karnataka High Court has said that while fixing or revising the Minimum Wages to be paid to employees, employers which is a stakeholder and which will be affected in the exercise, should have their say and the stand before the notification is passed by the Government. A division bench of Chief Justice N V Anjaria and Justice K V …

Calcutta High Court Directs Govt To Finalise Minimum Wage Of Tea Plantation Workers Within 6 Weeks, Calls It A Statutory & Legal Right
11 months, 1 week ago

Calcutta High Court Directs Govt To Finalise Minimum Wage Of Tea Plantation Workers Within 6 Weeks, Calls It A Statutory & Legal Right

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The Calcutta High Court's circuit bench at Jalpaiguri has directed the West Bengal government to finalise the minimum wage of tea plantation workers within 6 weeks, under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.This comes after a coordinate bench had upheld the interim hike in wages for the workers and directed the state to finalise a minimum wage within 6 months. The …

Karnataka government ordered to re-calculate minimum wages based on Supreme Court guidelines
1 year, 5 months ago

Karnataka government ordered to re-calculate minimum wages based on Supreme Court guidelines

The Hindu  

In what is being perceived as a victory for nearly 1.7 crore workers in unorganised sector across Karnataka, the State government has been directed by the Karnataka High Court to re-calculate the minimum wages that had been fixed in 2022. Petition by union The court, in a recent order based on a petition filed by the All India Trade Union …

Embargo U/S 70 Of Karnataka Cooperative Societies Act Not Attracted If Minimum Wages Not Paid To Workers: Karnataka High Court
2 years, 1 month ago

Embargo U/S 70 Of Karnataka Cooperative Societies Act Not Attracted If Minimum Wages Not Paid To Workers: Karnataka High Court

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The Karnataka High Court has made it clear that workmen employed at the Indian Coffee Workers Co-operative Society Limited, if not paid minimum wages as prescribed, can make an application to the appropriate authority constituted under the Minimum Wages Act to consider their claim for recovery of minimum wages. Further, it has said that Section 70 of the Karnataka Co-operative …

Rights Of Indian Prisoners To Equitable Wages And Application Of Labor Laws In Prisons
2 years, 9 months ago

Rights Of Indian Prisoners To Equitable Wages And Application Of Labor Laws In Prisons

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"Prisoner" as the term is specified under Section 1 of the Prison Security Act of 1992. If India's current state is considered, its prisoners are not even paid the minimum wage required by the 1948 Minimum Wages Act. Divergent Viewpoints On The Application Of The 1948 Minimum Wage Act: Numerous Indian court judgements show opposing perspectives on minimum wages as …

'Minimum Wages Not A Static Concept' : Karnataka HC Upholds 487.20% Rise in Doctors' Minimum Wages [Read Order]
4 years, 11 months ago

'Minimum Wages Not A Static Concept' : Karnataka HC Upholds 487.20% Rise in Doctors' Minimum Wages [Read Order]

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"The concept of minimum wages is not a static concept", observed the Karnataka High Court while upholding the wage revisions notified by the government. The Court was considering, inter alia, the Writ Appeal filed by the Private Hospital and Nursing Homes Association, aggrieved by the Karnataka Government's notification of January 6, 2017 by which the minimum wages for doctors and …

Minimum Wages Act : Karnataka HC Upholds Wage Revisions Notified By Govt In 37 Sectors [Read Judgment]
4 years, 11 months ago

Minimum Wages Act : Karnataka HC Upholds Wage Revisions Notified By Govt In 37 Sectors [Read Judgment]

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The Karnataka High Court has upheld the decision of the state government to revise the amount of minimum wages to be paid to employees in 37 sectors of employment. The court held that "It cannot be said that while fixing the rates of minimum wages the state government has exceeded the jurisdiction vested within it or the action is 'ultra …

Breaking: Delhi High Court Quashes Govt. Notification Revising Minimum Wage [Read Judgment]
6 years, 7 months ago

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

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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 …

Breaking: Delhi High Court Quashes Govt. Notification Revising Minimum Wage [Read Judgment]
6 years, 7 months ago

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

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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 HC Orders Industries to Pay Minimum Wages or Face Closure
7 years, 4 months ago

Delhi HC Orders Industries to Pay Minimum Wages or Face Closure

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The Delhi High Court has issued a landmark judgment, ordering industries to pay minimum wages to their workers. The court ruled that non-payment of minimum wages is unconscionable and unpardonable in law. The court emphasized the importance of payment of minimum wages and observed that extraction of labor without payment of minimum wages would reflect an attitude which is inhuman. …

Industry Which Does Not Pay Minimum Wages To Workmen Has No Right To Continue: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]
7 years, 4 months ago

Industry Which Does Not Pay Minimum Wages To Workmen Has No Right To Continue: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

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The Delhi High Court recently scorned at the practice of non-payment of minimum wages to workmen and came down heavily on industries which do not grant minimum wages, opining that such industries had "no right to continue".Justice C. Hari Shankar explained, "In any event, there can be no dispute that ―'sweated labor' is an anathema to any civilized society, and …

‘Pay minimum wages’
7 years, 6 months ago

‘Pay minimum wages’

The Hindu  

Centre for Indian Trade Unions State president Chukka Ramulu has alleged that the Government has been neglecting working class and those in the power getting benefited. A rally was held in the district headquarters on Tuesday from the old bus stand as part of State wide bandh observed by the CITU against the alleged anti-labour policies being followed by the …

Delhi HC Notice To Kejriwal Govt On Petition For Statutory Minimum Wages [Read Petition]
7 years, 8 months ago

Delhi HC Notice To Kejriwal Govt On Petition For Statutory Minimum Wages [Read Petition]

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought to know the stand of Arvind Kejriwal led- AAP government on a petition seeking enforcement of statutory minimum wages.A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal issued notice to the Delhi government on a PIL filed by NGO Social Jurist through advocate and social activist Ashok Agarwal seeking enforcement of current statutory …

Withdraw SLP against court order on minimum wages, Aruna Roy tells Centre
13 years, 2 months ago

Withdraw SLP against court order on minimum wages, Aruna Roy tells Centre

The Hindu  

Expressing shock at the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's instruction to challenge the Karnataka High Court order for payment of minimum wages to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act workers, the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan has demanded that the government withdraw its SLP the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday. MKSS leader and National Advisory Council member …

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