The Uttarakhand Code on Wages Rules, 2026
Rule 3. calculate minimum
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(1) For the purpose of sub-section (5) of section 6, minimum wages shall be fixed on daily basis, while keeping in view the following criteria -
(a) a standard working class family includes, in addition to earning worker, his wife or her husband and two children, which is equivalent to three adult consumption units,
(b) total (net intake) consumption of 2700 calorie per consumption unit per day,
(c) 66 meter of cloth per standard working class family per year;
(d) residential rent expenditure which shall be 10 percent of food and cloth expenditure,
(e) fuel, electricity or othermiscellaneous expenditure item shall be 20 percent of minimum wages,
(f) expenditure of children's education, medical requirement, entertainment and other incidental expenditure, shall be 25 percent of food and clothes expenditure,
(g) such other items and factors which State Advisory Board deems necessary;
(2) When one day wages rate are fixed then for fixing one hour rate such amount shall be divided by eight and to fix the rate of wages for a month it shall be multiplied by twenty six and in such division and multiplication half or more than half decimal shall be round off to next digit and decimal which is less than half shall be ignored. In case of a five day working week, the hourly rate of minimum wages so calculated shall be used to derive the minimum wages for the day.
(3) For the purpose of clause (b) of sub section (6) of" section 6 for such category of workers engaged in the works where they tolerate extreme temperature or humidity, hazardous occupation or process or underground work shall be paid extra wages in addition to wages determined by State Government from time to time. Hazardous occupation and process shall be those as defined in Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020. In relation to determine the working condition in other related process and snow line, a committee shall be constituted, in which Labour Commissioner, Uttarakhand, officer nominated by Disaster Management Department, Additional Labour Commissioner Uttarakhand and Deputy Director, Factories Uttarakhand shall be included in which Labour Commissioner Uttarakhand shall be the Chairperson.