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The main objective of this Act, is fixing a minimum rate of wages in number of
industries where the labours are not organized and sweated labours are most
dominant. The Act aims at preventing the exploitation of workers or labours in some
industries, for which, the appropriate Government is empowered to take steps to
prescribe minimum rates of wages in certain employment. The Act enables the
Central and State Government to fix minimum rates of wages payable to employees
in selected number of sweated industries and it extends to the whole of India.
Features
3) The Act applied to certain employments (listed in the Schedule). Both the
governments (Central and State) have to declare minimum wages for their sphere.
The appropriate government may add any employment to the list if there are 1000
workers are working in that state.
7) The appropriate Government shall declare special allowance after each six months
(i.e. 1st April and 1st October of every year).
8) In case of not paying minimum wage a claim can be made under section 20 before
the labour authority who can make of order of payment of 10 times of difference
amount.