Tag: minimum wages act
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An Insight into India’s Wage Policies
The government’s intent to strengthen the minimum wage policies through the “Codes on Wages”, 2019 is noteworthy, but it fails to uplift the lives of the workforce as desired. Through the analysis of various wage policies of India, we can point out two major drawbacks in our present policies. One, lack of coordination among State…
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Effects of Commencement of the Minimum Wages Act
By Mukul Sharma, KIIT Law School, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. Introduction The concept of minimum wages first evolved with reference to remuneration of workers in those industries where the level of wages was substantially low as compared to the wages for similar types of labour in other industries. As far back as 1928, the International Labour…