Lok Sabha Question No. 2194 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-12-02
Subject: Payment of Wages Below the Minimum Wages
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Uttam Kumar Nalamada Reddy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2194 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.12.2019

## PAYMENT OF WAGES BELOW THE MINIMUM WAGES

2194. SHRI UTTAM KUMAR REDDY NALAMADA:

Will  the  Minister  of  LABOUR  AND  EMPLOYMENT  be  pleased  to state:

- (a)whether it is true that a majority of workers in the country earn less than Rs. 10,000 a month;
- (b)the number of people earning less than Rs. 10,000 a month in the
- last 5 years, year-wise, State-wise, gender-wise, caste-wise;
- (c)the  number  of  complaints  received  by  the  Government  regarding
- payment of wages below the minimum wage;
- (d)whether any action has been taken on the basis of these complaints
- and if so, the details thereof and the status of these cases; and
- (e)whether any steps have been taken to ensure that workers are paid minimum wages and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)

- (a) & (b):
- No such information is available.
- (c) to (e):   Complaints  of  payment  of  less  than  minimum  wages  are received from time to time and are redressed by conducting inspections  and  filing  of  claims  before  the  concerned  authority  as specified under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. Officers of the Central Industrial Relations Machinery (CIRM) are regularly conducting inspections of the establishments in the central sphere under various labour  laws  including  Minimum  Wages  Act,  1948.      Whenever,  the cases  of  non-payment  of  Minimum  wages  are  detected,  the  claim cases  are  filed  before  the  Authority  under  the  Minimum  Wages  Act, 1948.  The details of action taken are at Annexure 'A'.

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ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (c)  TO  (e)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  2194  FOR  2.12.2019  BY  SHRI  UTTAM  KUMAR  REDDY NALAMADA REGARDING PAYMENT OF WAGES BELOW THE MINIMUM WAGES.

## Minimum Wages Act, 1948

|   S.No. | Particulars                     |   2018-19 |   2019-20 (upto September, 2019) |
|---------|---------------------------------|-----------|----------------------------------|
|       1 | No. of Inspections Conducted    |      8327 |                             3564 |
|       2 | No. of Irregularities detected  |     61489 |                            32465 |
|       3 | No. of Irregularities rectified |     34465 |                            12186 |
|       3 | No. of Prosecutions Launched    |      2081 |                              975 |
|       4 | No. of Convictions              |       651 |                              226 |

## Claim cases under Minimum Wages Act

| YEAR                         | CLAIM FILED UNDER MINIMUM WAGES ACT, 1948   | CLAIM FILED UNDER MINIMUM WAGES ACT, 1948   | CLAIM FILED UNDER MINIMUM WAGES ACT, 1948   | CLAIM FILED UNDER MINIMUM WAGES ACT, 1948   |
|------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
|                              | B/F                                         | FILED                                       | DECIDED                                     | AWARDED (RS.)                               |
| 2018-19                      | 2790                                        | 1908                                        | 1307                                        | 26,75,44,000                                |
| 2019-20 Upto September, 2019 | 3391                                        | 1303                                        | 1076                                        | 8,16,46,501                                 |

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