Amid high inflation, when essential commodities have become more expensive than ever before, contractual employees are finding it hard to run their normal livelihoods. They lambasted the Gilgit Baltistan assembly for dropping a 'bomb of inflation' and hiking the salaries of ministers and off
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to Centre and Delhi Government on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea sought direction to frame rules required to implement Section 31A of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, as inserted by the Minimum Wages (Delhi) Amendment Act, 2017, which oblige
In the first meeting of the Jail Development Board at the Secretariat under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, the Uttarakhand government has decided to increase the minimum wage rates of prisoners employed as labour in prisons, said an official statement from the govern
This concern has also been brought to the forefront during the proceedings of the petition committee on multiple occasions. Minister Bhardwaj emphasized that existing government regulations stipulate that contract workers must be paid at least the minimum wage as per the contract rate.
The participants at the events raised the demand for fixing the minimum wage at Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 50,000 per month, an increase in workers' salaries keeping in view the inflation, doubling the pension and withdrawing all recent increases in the tariffs of water, electricity and petroleu
Director of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER), Ummat Ali, told Express Daily that inflation in these months has made life challenging for people who are poor.
Amid Pakistan's failure to enforce minimum wage laws at a time when the South Asian country is reeling under high inflation, an estimated 80 per cent of unskilled workers are not receiving the minimum wage, Pakistan-based The Express Tribune reported.
The benefit will also be given to employees in the clerical and supervisor class. The Kejriwal Government has increased their minimum monthly wages, including non-matriculation, matriculation, and graduate employees. These new rates will be applicable from April 1.
New Delhi [India], October 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court has remarked that the notification of the Minimum Wages Act can be a guiding factor only in the case where there is no clue available to evaluate the monthly income of the deceased.
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): The Kejriwal Government raised the dearness allowance (DA) for labourers, on Friday. With the latest revision in the dearness allowance, the monthly wages for unskilled labourers have been raised from Rs 16,064 to Rs 16,506 per month.