Rule 3. Manner of calculating the minimum rate of wages

(1) for the purposes of sub-section (5) of section 6, the minimum rate of wages shall be fixed on the day basis keeping in view the following criteria*, namely: -

(i) The standard working-class family which includes a spouse and two children apart from the earning worker; an equivalent of three adult consumption units;

(ii) A net intake of 2700 calories per day per consumption unit;

(iii) 66 meters cloth per year per standard working class family;

(iv) Housing rent expenditure to constitute 10 percent of food and clothing expenditure;

(v) Fuel, electricity and other miscellaneous items of expenditure to constitute 20 percent of minimum wage; and

(vi) Expenditure for children education, medical requirement, recreation and expenditure on contingencies to constitute 25 percent of minimum wage;

(2) when the rate of wages for a day is fixed, then, such amount shall be divided by eight for fixing the rate of wages for an hour and multiplied by twenty-six for fixing the rate of wages for a month and in such division and multiplication the factors of one-half and more than one-half shall be rounded as next figure and the factors less than one-half shall be ignored.