Labour Ministry: No intention to delay fixing of minimal wages

The authorities has no intention to delay fixing minimal wages and nationwide flooring wages, the Labour Ministry stated on Saturday. The clarification comes amid reviews that forming an skilled group on the difficulty with a three-year time period is an try and delay fixing minimal wages and nationwide flooring wages.
Earlier this month, the Centre constituted an skilled group below the chairmanship of economist Ajit Mishra to supply technical inputs and proposals on fixing these wages. The tenure of the group is three years.
The provision of minimal wages supplied within the Labour Code on Wages was handed in 2019. Currently, the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act apply to employees in scheduled employments, together with mining, plantations and providers.

The Wage Code is supposed to make sure the “right to sustenance” for each employee and extends the legislative safety of minimal wage to 100 per cent of the nation’s 50-crore workforce from the present 40 per cent.
In an official assertion, the Labour Ministry stated, “The tenure of the skilled group is three years. It has come to note that sure sections of the press and a few stakeholders have opined this as an try and delay the fixation of minimal wages and nationwide flooring wages by the federal government.

“It is clarified that the government does not have any such intention and the expert group will submit its recommendations to the government as early as possible,” the assertion added. However, it didn’t point out any timeline for implementation of the availability.