Centre publishes Draft Code on Wages (Central) Rules; Objections and Suggestions from Public Invited

The Centre has published a Draft Code on Wages (Central) Rules and has invited objections and suggestions from the public.

The Parliament had last year passed Code on Wages, 2019 which was comprehensive of four existing laws on labour wages – Payment of Wages Act, 1936; Minimum Wages Act, 1948; Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 and Equal Remuneration Act, 1976.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment Notification reads as follows:

The following draft rules, which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by section 67 of the Code on Wages, 2019 (29 of 2019) read with section 24 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897) and in supersession of the – (i) Payment of Wages (Procedure) Rules, 1937;

(ii) Payment of Wages (Nomination) Rules, 2009;

(iii) Minimum Wages (Central) Rules, 1950;

(iv) Minimum Wages (Central Advisory Board) Rules, 2011;

(v) Ease of Compliance to Maintain Register under various Labour Laws Rules, 2017 to the extent these rules are made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 13 of the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 (25 of 1976), section 29 and section 30 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948) and section 26 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936) and applicable accordingly;

(vi) Payment of Bonus Rules, 1975;

(vii) Equal Remuneration Rules, 1976; and

(viii) Central Advisory Committee on Equal Remuneration Rules, 1991

made by the Central Government in exercise of the powers conferred by the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936), the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 (21 of 1965) and the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 (25 of 1976), as the case may be, which are repealed by section 69 of the said Code on Wages, 2019, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, are hereby notified, as required by sub-section (1) of said section 67, for information of all persons likely to be affected thereby and the notice is hereby given that the said draft notification will be taken into consideration after the expiry of a period of forty-five days from the date on which the copies of the Official Gazette in which this notification is published are made available to the public.