MINIMUM WAGE COMPLIANCE MANDATORY IN OFFICES NOW
A BLOG BY GAURAV RAJ BHAGAT ADVOCATE HIGH COURT M.P Government of India of lately seems to be very serious about the implementation of the Minimum Wages act as a part of mandatory compliance and is stern about defiant s Applicability of the act can be very well understood in the light of the following two verdicts Bakshish Singh v. Darshan Engineering Works 1994 . There is one principle which admits of no exception. No industry has a right to exist unless it is able to pay its working men at least a bare minimum wages. Hence if an employer cannot maintain his enterprise without cutting down the wages of his employees he would have no right to conduct his enterprise. Adoni v. State of Andhra Pradesh. 1981. Minimum wages does not violate any of the fundamental rights. On the other hand it fulfills the obligations of the state under the directing principles of the state ...