EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATE – UNIFIED CODE ON WAGES (India)

Author: Rashmi Grover

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Publisher: Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Journal / Book: NO&T Asia Legal Review No.14 (August, 2019)

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Background
In its effort to streamline the myriad labour laws in the country, India has decided to unify its labour laws into four primary laws. One of these is the Code on Wages (“Wages Code”) which was passed by the Parliament of India on 2 August 2019 and has received Presidential assent on 8 August 2019. It will be effective from the date notified in the Official Gazette and it may come into effect in parts on different dates.

The Wages Code attempts to bring all matters pertaining to payment of wages, bonus and prevention of discrimination within its ambit and upon coming into force will subsume and replace four extant legislations being the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 and the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976.

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