The Government has vide notification dated August
28, 2017 revised the salary threshold for the applicability of the
Payment Wages Act, 1936 ("Wages Act")
from Rs. 18,000/- (Rupees Eighteen Thousand Only) per month to Rs.
24,000/- (Rupees Twenty Four Thousand Only) per month.
Consequently, the provisions contained under the Wages Act will now
be applicable to employees earning wages up to Rs. 24,000/- (Rupees
Twenty Four Thousand Only) per month, covering a significantly
larger number of employees within the purview of the Wages Act.
The Wages Act regulates the payment of wages to persons employed
in factories, railways, industrial and other establishments
specified under the Wages Act. It contains provisions with respect
to the responsibility for payment of wages, fixing of wage-periods,
time of payment of wages, permissible deductions, maintenance of
records and registers and penal consequences for non-compliances of
the provisions stipulated under the Wages Act.
