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  • The expert group is chaired by Prof Ajit Mishra, Director,

    Govt sets up expert panel to fix minimum wages

    India | June 03, 2021 15:37 IST

    To arrive at the wage rates, the group will look into the international best practices on the wages and evolve a scientific criteria and methodology for fixation of wages. The expert group is chaired by Prof Ajit Mishra, Director, Institute of Economic Growth.

  • The Lok Sabha has already passed the bill with almost all the parties supporting it.

    Parliament passes Code on Wages bill to ensure minimum wage

    India | August 02, 2019 23:31 IST

    The Lok Sabha has already passed the bill with almost all the parties supporting it. Terming the move as historic and saying that it will ensure minimum and timely payment of wages to workers engaged in agriculture, security guards, women working as domestic help among others, Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar said that the proposed law will bring all of them in the ambit of minimum wages.

  • Mininum Wages Act

    Govt to move ahead on labour reforms with new Bill, extend Minimum Wages Act across sectors

    India | June 09, 2019 11:09 IST

    This is part of the government's efforts to move aggressively on labour reforms -- to bring equity in wages across sectors and take into account the fact that over 90 per cent of the workforce is in the unorganised sector.

  • Modi government likely to bring new bill on labour reforms

    Modi government likely to bring new bill on labour reforms

    India | June 09, 2019 10:51 IST

    In what could be a significant improvement over existing wage rules, the government is likely to extend the applicability of the Minimum Wages Act to all forms of employment and workers in both the organised and the unorganised sectors.

  • minimum monthly salary could go up to rs 15 000

    Minimum monthly salary could go up to Rs 15,000

    December 28, 2014 13:02 IST

    New Delhi:  Centre government is considering raising the minimum wages to Rs 15,000 across all the industry sectors in the country. The BJP led government's act will effectively double the income of workers across 45

  • employer asked to pay compensation of over rs 60k to minor

    Employer asked to pay compensation of over Rs 60k to minor maid

    India | October 06, 2014 17:13 IST

    New Delhi: Upholding an order of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), a Delhi court here has asked an employer to pay a compensation of Rs 60,840 to a minor maid for making her work for

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