Non-Payment of Minimum Salary

Non-Payment of Minimum Salary

            Complaints regarding non-payment of minimum wages in private institutions mostly go to state government, which is the appropriate government.


            The implementation of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 is carried out by the Centre as well as the States in respect of their respective jurisdiction. In the Central Sphere, the enforcement is secured through the Inspecting Officers of the Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) commonly designated as Central Industrial Relations Machinery (CIRM). The compliance in the State sphere is ensured through the State Enforcement Machinery. They conduct regular inspections and in the event of detection of any case of non-payment or under-payment of minimum wages, they advise the employers to make payment of the shortfall of wages. In case of non-compliance, penal provisions against the defaulting employers are invoked. The details of the enforcement of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 in the Central Sphere during the last three years and current year are at Annexure.
Details of enforcement of Minimum Wages Act in the Central Sphere during last three years and current year-

Sl. No.	Particulars	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15 (upto Dec., 2014)
1	No. of inspections conducted	15272	15550	13099	4852
2	No. of Prosecution Launched	6937	5307	5167	1790
3	No. of Irregularities detected	291032	291148	270273	179958
4	No. of Convictions	6816	4954	5074	1041

This was stated by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State(IC) for Labour  and Employment in response to a written question in Rajya  Sabha  today.

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Bringing Hotel and Private Security Workers under Social Security Scheme 

The Government enacted the “Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008” with a view to provide social security to unorganized workers including those in hotel, private security and others. The Act provides for constitution of National Social Security Board at the central level to recommend social security schemes like life and disability cover, health and maternity benefits, old age protection and any other benefit as may be determined by the Government for unorganized workers. 

The ‘unorganized worker’ has been defined under the Unorganized Workers Social Security Act, 2008 as a home-based worker, self-employed worker or a wage worker in the unorganized sector and includes a worker in the organized sector who is not covered by any of the Acts mentioned in Schedule-II of this Act. As such all unorganised workers including those in hotel, private security and others and covered as per the provisions of the Act are eligible to take benefits under the social security schemes/welfare schemes framed under the Act. 

This was stated by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State(IC) for Labour and Employment in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha today. 

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Proposal to Amend the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 

The Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) has suggested certain amendments to Section 25FFF of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 in the context of implementing the National Manufacturing Policy. This Ministry has organized two tri-partite consultations with the stakeholders to ascertain their views. The proposed amendments have not been finalized. 

This was stated by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State(IC) for Labour and Employment in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha today. 

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Taking Over Delivery of Medical Services under ESI Scheme 

In 2006, the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) had decided to take over the administration of ESI Medical Scheme from those States who were willing to hand over the same to the ESI Corporation. The ESI Corporation has so far taken over 22 such ESI hospitals from the State Governments. ESI Corporation has taken and proposes to take a number of measures to improve the delivery of medical care services under ESI Scheme like increasing fee to be paid to Insurance Medical Practitioners (IMP), setting up of State Executive Committees with delegated powers in every state, heavy dispensaries to have minimum investigation facilities etc. 

This was stated by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State(IC) for Labour and Employment in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha today.