Type:Preventive Compliance Frequency: Monthly

Action to be taken:
Examine notifications of scheduled jobs and ensure all workers in those employments are paid the minimum wage as specified in notifications from the Government. Minimum Wages are payable in Cash. No unauthorised deductions are to be made from the wages.

Audit Requirement:
Are all workers in scheduled employments being paid at least the minimum wage in cash, without unauthorised deductions ?

Supporting Documents:
Details of workers in scheduled employments and their wages.

Related Documents:
The Schedule To The Minimum Wages Act - S 2(g), 27: List Of Scheduled Employments   View htm  4.5 Kb

Related Triggers:
Deduction or Fine From Wages
Disciplinary Action Against An Employee
Payment of Wages
Startup of a New Establishment or Factory
Warning, Censuring or Fining A Workman

Related Keywords:
Deduction/Fine From Wages
Discipline, Disciplinary Action
Minimum Wages
Payment of Wages

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Related Sections:
Minimum Wages Act, 1948
11:Wages in kind:
(1) Minimum wages payable under this Act shall be paid in cash.
(2) Where it has been the custom to pay wages wholly or partly in kind, the appropriate Government being of the opinion that it is necessary in the circumstances of the case may, by notification in the Official Gazette, authorise the payment of minimum wages either wholly or partly in kind.
(3) If the appropriate Government is of the opinion that provision should be made for the supply of essential commodities at concession rates, the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, authorise the provision of such supplies at concession rates.
(4) The cash value of wages in kind and of concession in respect of supplies of essential commodities at concession rates authorised under sub-sections (2) and (3) shall be estimated in the prescribed manner.

Minimum Wages Act, 1948
12:Payment of minimum rates of wages:
(1) Where in respect of any scheduled employment a notification under Section 5 is in force, the employer shall pay to every employee engaged in a scheduled employment under him wages at a rate not less than the minimum rate of wages fixed by such notification for that class of employees in that employment without any deductions except as may be authorised within such time and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
(2) Nothing contained in this section shall affect the provisions of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936).