PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT, 1936

PROCHETA DUTTA

To regulate the payment of wages to certain classes of employed persons. Two folds First the date of payment of wages and Secondly the deductions from wages whether as fine or otherwise.

Person employed in-

Any factory (as defined in Factories Act, 1948).

Tramway service or motor transport service

Air transport service Dock, Wharf or Jetty, Inland vessel, mechanically propelled

Mine, quarry or oil-field plantation

Workshop or other establishment etc.

FIXATION OF WAGE-PERIOD
Every person responsible for the payment of wages under section 3 shall fix periods (referred to as wage-periods) in respect of which such wages shall be payable.

No wage-period shall exceed one month.

TIME OF

PAYMENT OF WAGES

 The wages of every person employed upon or in any railway, factory or industrial or other establishment] upon or in which less than one thousand persons are employed, shall be paid before the expiry of the seventh day, any other railway, factory or industrial or other establishment, shall be paid before the expiry of the tenth day, after the last day of the wage period in respect of which the wages are payable in the case of persons employed on a dock, wharf or jetty or in a mine, the balance of wages found due on completion of the final tonnage account of the ship or wagons loaded or unloaded, as the case may be, shall be paid before the expiry of the seventh day from the day of such completion.

 Where the employment of any person is terminated by or on behalf of the employer, the wages earned by him shall be paid before the expiry of the second working day from the day on which his employment is terminated

Where the employment of any person in an establishment is terminated due to the closure of the establishment for any reason other than a weekly or other recognized holiday, the wages earned by him shall be paid before the expiry of the second day from the day on which his employment is so terminated. All payments of wages shall be made on a working day.

METHODS OF PAYMENT OF WAGES

Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes

All wages shall be paid in current coin or currency notes or in both: PROVIDED that the employer may, after obtaining the written authorization of the employed person, pay him the wages either by cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account.

AUTHORIZED DEDUCTIONS ON THE WAGES

FINES

PROVIDENT FUND

AMENITIES & SERVICES

DEDUCTIONS INCOME TAX ABSENCE FROM DUTY

RECOVERY OF ADVANCES

DAMAGE OR LOSS

ORDER OF COURT

RECOVERY OF LOANS

COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES

DEDUCTIONS HOUSE ACCOMODATION LIFE INSURANCE POLICY

FUNDS

RECOVERY OF LOSSES