VIOLATION OF MINIMUM WAGE POLICY

Minister of State (In-charge) for Labour and Employment Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar replied to a question in Lok Sabha on 24th July 2019 regarding the issue of Minimum Wage.

The Minister replied in written form that the regular inspections are carried out for ensuring the compliance of Labour Laws. The details of inspections conducted under Minimum Wages Act, 1948 and Payment of Wages Act, 1936 for ensuring the timely payment of statutory wages during the last three years is enclosed herewith as Annexure “A”.

The Officers of Central Industrial Relations Machinery (CIRM) are regularly conducting inspections under various labour laws, to ensure that the workers are being paid the minimum wages at the rate fixed according to the nature of work as provided under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. However, if there is any case pertaining to the non-payment or less payment of minimum wages to the workers, the officers of the CIRM immediately take action by filing claim cases before the authority under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 and for other violations prosecutions are filed in the court. The details of the claim cases decided, the amount awarded to the workers during the last three years and prosecution filed in the court under Minimum Wages Act, 1948 and Payment of Wages Act, 1936 are enclosed herewith as Annexure “B”.

Measures to create awareness among labourers about their rights have been provided under Rule 22 of the Minimum Wages (Central) Rules, 1950 framed under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. Rule 22 of the Minimum Wage (Central) Rules, 1950 prescribes that Notices in the Form IX-A containing the minimum rates of wages fixed together with abstracts of the Act, the rules made thereunder and the name and address of the Inspector shall be displayed in English and in a language understood by the majority of the workers in the employment at the main entrances to the establishment and at its office and shall be maintained in a clean and legible condition. Such notices shall also be displayed on the notice-boards of all sub-divisional and district offices.

ANNEXURE-A
Annexure referred to in reply to Parts (a) to (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred
Question No. 291 for 24.06.2019 raised by Shri Nalin Kumar Kateel
regarding “Violation of Minimum Wage Policy”.

Minimum Wages Act, 1948

S.No.	Particulars	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19 Upto March, 2019
1	No. of Inspections Conducted	9803	9151	9187	8327
2	No. of Irregularities detected	75938	61689	77399	61489
3	No. Irregularities Rectified	46467	53255	39620	34465
4	No. of Prosecutions Launched	1549	2321	1651	2081
5	No. of Convictions	1476	1951	2205	651

Payment of Wages Act, 1936

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S.No.	Particulars	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19 Upto March, 2019
1	No. of Inspections Conducted	1628	2422	3246	2670
2	No. of Irregularities detected	15369	23977	24735	20176
3	No. Irregularities Rectified	16836	20501	12406	13502
4	No. of Prosecutions Launched	226	566	447	413
5	No. of Convictions	281	269	642	89

ANNEXURE -B

Annexure referred to in reply to Part (d) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 291 for 24.06.2019 raised by Shri Nalin Kumar Kateel regarding “Violation of Minimum Wage Policy”.

Claim cases under Minimum Wages Act, 1948

YEAR	NO. OF CLAIMS			AMOUNT (IN LAKHS)
	B/F	FILED	DECIDED	AWARDED (Rs.)	RECOVERERD (Rs.)	PAID TO WORKES (Rs.)
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
2015-16	3672	743	1796	66654417	44128036	34879425
2016-17	2610	1198	1138	96684922	49485990	48540964
2017-18	2617	1464	1230	161901419	25485526	29794099
2018-19 Upto March, 2019	2790	1908	1307	26,75,44,000	2,25,90,000	2,97,95,000

Claim cases under Payment of Wages Act, 1936

YEAR	NO. OF CLAIMS			AMOUNT AWARDED (IN LAKHS)
	B/F	FILED	DECIDED	AWARDED (Rs.)	RECOVERERD (RS.)	PAID TO WORKES (Rs.)
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
2015-16	183	103	86	16110659	11386495	11350000
2016-17	195	157	36	5748232	821840	1072547
2017-18	262	252	172	35282676	636136	2729575
2018-19 Upto March, 2019	332	350	381	1,76,19,000	3,26,18,000	1,27,33,000

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