The Payment of Wages Act aims at regulating the payment of wages to certain classes of employed persons. It provides for the imposition of fines and deductions and lays down wage periods and time and mode of payment of wages. Thus the Act ensures payment of wages in a particular form at regular intervals without unauthorised deductions.
Applicability
The Payment of Wages Act extends to the whole of India.
It is applicable to any factory, any railway establishment and any industrial or other establishment like tramway service, motor transport service, air, oilfied, plantation, workshop, or other establishment producing, adapting or manufacturing any article, establishments engaged in construction, development and maintenance of buildings, roads, bridges or canals, navigation, irrigation or water supply,transmission, generation and distribution of electricity/power and any other establishment notified by the Central or a State Government.
The Act is not applicable to persons whose wages are 24,000 or more per month.
