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 Employee, an equivalent of three adult consumption units;

(ii) 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.In case of five days working week, the hourly rate of minimum wages so calculated shall be used to derive the minimum wages for the day.