minimum wages

sagar madan (Querist) 01 August 2008 This query is : Resolved
Please inform what is the minimum amount of wages payable to skilled and unskilled workers in the state of Maharashtra?

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sagar madan (Querist) 01 August 2008
Is there any amount by any notification of Government of Maharashtra under Minimum wages Act? Does Bombay Shop And Establishment Act prescribes any minimum amount payable to skilled and unskilled workers?

nitin (Expert) 01 August 2008
dear sagar

well your quaries about the minimum wages of the skilled and un skilled workers in maharastra, i wants to sugest that minimum wages for the unskilled workers/ temporary workers/ daily wager are 3000/rs/month.

more over the information about the maharashtra THE MINIMUM WAGES ACT, 1948 is as under

(1) In section 20, sub-section (1) after the words "payment of less than the minimum rates of wages", insert the words, brackets, figures "or in respect of wages not paid within the time prescribed under sub-section (1) of section 12."3
(2) For the word "Magistrate" in sub-section (1) substitute the words "Judicial Magistrate".

In section 20, to sub-section (1) add the following proviso:

"Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint any Block Development Officer, Tahsildar, Additional Tahsildar or Naib Tahsildar to be the Authority to hear and decide for any area specified in the Notification all such claims of employees employed or paid in employment in agriculture in the area so specified.

Explanation.- For the purposes of this proviso, the expression "Block Development Officer" has the meaning assigned to it in the Maharashtra Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis Act, 1961 (Maharashtra Act 5 of 1962)].5