Rule 3. Manner of calculating the minimum rate of wages

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

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

b) A net intake of two thousand seven hundred calories per day per consumption unit;

c) 66 meters cloth per year per standard working class family;

d) Housing rent expenditure to constitute ten percent of food and clothing expenditure;

e) Fuel, electricity and other miscellaneous items of expenditure to constitute twenty percent of minimum wage; and

f) Expenditure for children education, medical requirement, recreation and expenditure on contingencies to constitute twenty five percent of minimum wage;

2) When the rate of wages for a day is fixed, then, such an amount shall be divided by eight or the number of hour consisting a normal working day, as the case may be, 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.