Act
The Code on Wages, 2019
An Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to wages and bonus and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
- Act No. 29 of 2019
- Assented 8th August, 2019
- Gazette Gazette of India Extraordinary Part II Sec. 1, No. 48
- 9 chapters
- 69 sections
Commencement Partly in force
67 of 69 sections are fully in force; 2 partly in force (s. 42, 67). Each section page shows the notification wording that applies to it.
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
Chapter II — Minimum Wages
- s. 5Payment of minimum rate of wages
- s. 6Fixation of minimum wages
- s. 7Components of minimum wages
- s. 8Procedure for fixing and revising minimum wages
- s. 9Power of Central Government to fix floor wage
- s. 10Wages of employee who works for less than normal working day
- s. 11Wages for two or more classes of work
- s. 12Minimum time rate wages for piece work
- s. 13Fixing hours of work for normal working day
- s. 14Wages for overtime work
Chapter III — Payment of Wages
- s. 15Mode of payment of wages
- s. 16Fixation of wage period
- s. 17Time limit for payment of wages
- s. 18Deductions which may be made from wages
- s. 19Fines
- s. 20Deductions for absence from duty
- s. 21Deductions for damage or loss
- s. 22Deductions for services rendered
- s. 23Deductions for recovery of advances
- s. 24Deductions for recovery of loans
- s. 25Chapter not to apply to Government establishments
Chapter IV — Payment of Bonus
- s. 26Eligibility for bonus, etc
- s. 27Proportionate reduction in bonus in certain cases
- s. 28Computation of number of working days
- s. 29Disqualification for bonus
- s. 30Establishments to include departments, undertakings and branches
- s. 31Payment of bonus out of allocable surplus
- s. 32Computation of gross profits
- s. 33Computation of available surplus
- s. 34Sums deductible from gross profits
- s. 35Calculation of direct tax payable by employer
- s. 36Set on and set off of allocable surplus
- s. 37Adjustment of customary or interim bonus against bonus payable under this Code
- s. 38Deduction of certain amounts from bonus payable
- s. 39Time limit for payment of bonus
- s. 40Application of this Chapter to establishments in public sector in certain cases
- s. 41Non-applicability of this Chapter
Chapter V — Advisory Board
- s. 42Central Advisory Board and State Advisory Boards Partly in force
Chapter VI — Payment of Dues, Claims and Audit
- s. 43Responsibility for payment of various dues
- s. 44Payment of various undisbursed dues in case of death of employee
- s. 45Claims under Code and procedure thereof
- s. 46Reference of disputes under this Code
- s. 47Presumption about accuracy of balance sheet and profit and loss account of corporations and companies
- s. 48Audit of account of employers not being coporations or companies
- s. 49Appeal
- s. 50Records, returns and notices
Chapter VII — Inspector-cum-facilitator
Chapter VIII — Offences and Penalties
Chapter IX — Miscellaneous
- s. 57Bar of suits
- s. 58Protection of action taken in good faith
- s. 59Burden of proof
- s. 60Contracting out
- s. 61Effect of laws agreements, etc., inconsistent with this Code
- s. 62Delegation of powers
- s. 63Exemption of employer from liability in certain cases
- s. 64Protection against attachments of assets of employer with Government
- s. 65Power of Central Government to give directions
- s. 66Saving
- s. 67Power of appropriate Government to make rules Partly in force
- s. 68Power to remove difficulties
- s. 69Repeal and savings