Proposals to fix the minimum rates of wages per day payable to the employees engaged in the Scheduled employment of "Employment of Watch and Ward" - S.O. 2233(E) - Indian Law

Proposals to fix the minimum rates of wages per day payable to the employees engaged in the Scheduled employment of "Employment of Watch and Ward" NOTIFICATION New Delhi , the 18th September, 2008 S.O. 2233(E).— Whereas the proposals to fix the minimum rates of wages per day payable to the employees engaged in the Scheduled employment of "Employment of Watch and Ward", was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), as required by clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), vide Notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Labour and Employment S.O. 1206 (E), dated the 23rd May, 2008. for information and inviting objections and suggestions from all persons likely to be affected thereby, till the expiry of the period of three months, from the date on which copies of Gazette notification were made available to the public; AND whereas the copies of the said Gazette were made available to the public on, 24 May, 2008; AND whereas objections and suggestions received on the said proposals have been considered by the Central Government; NOW, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) sub-section (1) of section 3 read with clause (i) of sub-section (1) of section 4 and sub-section (2) of section 5 of the said Act, the Central Government after consulting the Advisory Board, hereby fixes the minimum rates of wages payable to the employees employed in this Scheduled employment. The minimum rates of wages, which will be effective from date of this notification shall consist of (a) basic rates of wages as set out in column (2) of Part- I of the Schedule annexed herewith and payable to the employees working in areas mentioned in Column (1) thereof; and (b) a special allowance, hereinafter referred to as Variable Dearness Allowance, in Part- II of the said Schedule shall be adjusted by the Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) at an interval of six months commencing on the1st October and 1st April on the basis of average Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers for the each preceding period of six months ending on 30th June and 31st December every year respectively, at the rate mentioned in Column (2) of Part-II of the Schedule. SCHEDULE Part — I Basic rates of wages Area Daily wage (In Rupees) (1) (2) Without arms A Rs.180 B Rs. 150 C Rs. 120 With arms A Rs.200 B Rs. 170 C Rs.140 Part — II Rate of Variable Dearness Allowance Rate of Variable Dearness Allowance for every point rise or fall beyond 133, which is the average monthly Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers (Base 2001=100) for the period July-December, 2007. Area Variable Dearness Allowance (In Rupees) (1) (2) Without arms A 1.35 B 1.13 C 0.90 With arms A 1.50 B 1.28 C 1.05 Explanation: For the purpose of the notification 1. Area "A" and Area "B" as indicated in Annexure to this notification shall respectively comprise all the places as specified in the said annexure as such areas, and include all places within a distance of fifteen kilometers from the periphery of a Municipal Corporation or Municipality or Cantonment Board or Notified Area Committee of a particular place. Area "C" shall comprise of all the other places not mentioned in Area "A" and "B" of the Annexure and to which the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 extends. The places added or upgraded from time to time by the Ministry of Finance for the purpose of payment of House Rent Allowance to Central Government employees shall be taken to be added from the date of such addition or up-gradation for the purposes of classification specified in Annexure to this draft proposal. 2. Where the existing rates of wages of any employee based on contract or agreement or otherwise are higher than the rates notified herein, the higher rates shall be protected and treated as minimum rates of wages, applicable for the purpose of this notification to such employees. 3. The minimum rates of wages include also the wages for weekly day of rest. 4. The minimum rates of wages are applicable to employees employed by contractors also. 5. The minimum rates of wages for disabled persons shall be same as payable to the workers of appropriate category. 6. The men and women employees shall get the same rates of wages for the same work or work of similar nature. 7. The minimum rates of wages and Variable Dearness Allowance both constitute the minimum rates of wages to be enforceable under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. ANNEXURE AREA - "A" Ahmedabad (UA) Bangaluru (UA) Kolkatta (UA) Delhi (UA) Greater Mumbai (UA) Hyderabad (UA) Kanpur (UA) Chennai (UA) Nagpur (UA) AREA - "B" Agra (UA) Ajmer Aligarh Allahabad (UA) Amravati Aurangabad (UA) Barelly (UA) Bhavnagar Bikaner Bhopal Bhubaneshwar Amritsar Chandiragh (UA) Coimbatore (UA) Cuttack (UA) Durgapur Faridabad Complex Ghaziabad (UA) Gorakhpur Guwahati City Guntur Gwalior (UA) Indore (UA) Hubli-Dharwad Jabalpur (UA) Jaipur (UA) Jamshedpur (UA) Jodhpur Kochi (UA) Kolhapur (UA) Kozhikode (UA) Kota Ludhiana Madurai (UA) Meerut (UA) Moradabad (UA) Mysore (UA) Nasik (UA) Pune (UA) Patna (UA) Raipur (UA) Rajkot Ranchi (UA) Sholapur (UA) Srinagar (UA) Surat (UA) Thiruvanantapuram (UA) Vadodara (UA) Varanasi (UA) Vijayawada (UA) Vishakhapatnam (UA) Warangal (UA) Area 'C' will comprise all areas not mentioned in this list. NB: V.A. stands for Urban Agglomeration. [F. No. S-320l 7/2/2008 ] HARCHARAN SINGH, Dy. Director General