West Bengal minimum wages for the period 1/7/2023 to 31/12/2023
Contents News/Article Date: 28th July 2023
Relating to which Act: The Minimum Wages Act 1948
Penalty under the Act: Section 22 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 an employer who fails to provide minimum rates of wages to the employees or contravenes any rule or order made under Section 13 of the Act shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or fine not less than five hundred rupees or both.
Applicable to which State: State of West Bengal
Type: Government of West Bengal, Office of the Labour Commissioner, Memo No. 28/Stat/ 2RW/9/2022/LCS/JLC dated 28th July 2023 issued by Additional Labour Commissioner, West Bengal
Pertains to: The minimum rates of wages for the employees employed in the following 30 (thirty) Scheduled Employments in the state of West Bengal shall be effective in the period from 1st July 2023 to 31st December 2023.
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Karma Global has a system to regularly track announcement of minimum wages declared and also consumer price index and in this respect, the Government of West Bengal has announced the minimum rates of wages for the employees employed in the 30 scheduled employments in the State of West Bengal for the period 1/7/2023 to 31/12/2023.
Karma Global will inform all its clients accordingly so that this knowledge information is known to all of them.
And in this instance: The minimum rates of wages for the employees employed in the following 30 (thirty) Scheduled Employments in the state of West Bengal shall be effective in the period from 1st July 2023 to 31st December 2023.
The minimum rates of wages have been updated with reference to the Fixation / Revision notifications as mentioned against each scheduled employment
Implementing Areas West Bengal
Zone A: Areas under Municipal Corporations, Municipalities, Notified Areas, Development Authorities, Thermal Power Plant areas including Township Areas.
Zone B: Rest of West Bengal.
(3) To arrive at daily rate, monthly rate shall have to be divided by 26 (to be rounded off to the nearest rupee) and to arrive at weekly rate, daily rate shall have to be multiplied by 6;
(4) A normal working day shall consist of eight hours of actual work and not less than half hour of recess, subject to 48 hours of actual work in a week;
Subject: The minimum rates of wages for the employees employed in the following 30 (thirty) Scheduled Employments in the state of West Bengal shall be effective in the period from 1st July 2023 to 31st December 2023.
Attached is the notification
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