MINIMUM WAGES ACT
1948
- 1. Short title and extent
- 2. Interpretation
- 3. Fixing of minimum rates of wages
- 4. Minimum rate of wages
- 5. Procedure for fixing and revising minimum wages
- 6. Advisory committees and sub-committees
- 7. Advisory Board
- 8. Central Advisory Board
- 9. Composition of committees, etc.
- 10. Correction of errors
- 11. Wages in kind
- 12. Payment of minimum rates of wages
- 13. Fixing hours for a normal working day, etc.
- 14. Overtime
- 15. Wages of worker who works for less than normal working day.
- 16. Wages for two or more classes of work
- 17. Minimum time rate wages for piece work
- 18. Maintenance of registers and records
- 19. Inspectors
- 20. Claims
- 21. Single application in respect of a number of employees
- 22. Penalties for certain offences
- 22-A. General provision for punishment of other offences
- 22-B. Cognizance of offences
- 22-C. Offences by companies
- 22-D. Payment of undisbursed amounts due to employees
- 22-E. Protection against attachment of assets of employer with Government
- 22-F. Application of Payment of Wages Act, 1936, to scheduled employments
- 23. Exemption of employer from liability in certain cases
- 24. Bar of Suits
- 25. Contracting out
- 26. Exemptions and exceptions
- 27. Power of State Government to add to Schedule
- 28. Power of the Central Government to give directions
- 29. Power of the Central Government to make rules
- 30. Power of appropriate Government to make rules
- 30-A. Rules made by Central Government to be laid before Parliament
- 31. Validation of fixation of certain minimum rates of wages