Moving Towards Implementing The Code On Wages, 2019

While the Code on Wages, 2019 (hereinafter referred to as “the Code”) received Presidential assent on August 08 2019¹, the Government was yet to notify the effective date of the Code coming into force. The Code has unified and subsumed four different acts, namely the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 and the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 (collectively “Existing Legislation”). The implementation of the Code is expected to have wide ranging implications for a majority of stakeholders. Under Section 1(3) of the Code, the Central Government has the power to issue notification in the official gazette to appoint different dates for different provisions of the Code to come into force.