Applies to: Whole of India to the Scheduled employments in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed under this Act.

Fixing & Revising Minimum rate of Wages: The appropriate government shall fix the minimum rates payable to employees and review at such intervals not exceeding 5 years and revise the minimum rates if necessary.

Registers & records to be maintained by employers:

•  Muster Roll in Form VI

•  Register of Wages in Form XI

•  Register of Wages in Form XII

•  Overtime Register in Form V

•  Register of Fines in Form I

•  Register of Employment & Wages in Form XIV

•  Inspection Book

•  Submit an Annual Return in Form III/ Form IIIA

•  A notice in Form IV- abstracts of the Act

•  Wage Slip generated through Wage Protection System

•  Registers shall be preserved for 3 years.

Penalties: 

•  Pays less than minimum wages or contravenes any rule or order u/s 13 – With imprisonment which may extend to 6 months or with fine which may extend to Rs. 1 Lakh or with both.

•  Contravenes any provision of this Act or any Rule if no other penalty is elsewhere provided – With fine which may extend to Rs. 2 Lakh. if violation continued Rs.2,000/- for each day. For subsequent violation fine upto Rs.5 Lakh.

Wage Protection System in scheduled employments w.e.f.13-7-2015. Disbursement of wages to the employees only through individual bank accounts. To issue electronically generated wage slips to employees on a day prior to disbursement of wages.

To upload an I.T. enabled Register of Employment and Wages in Form XIV through Labour Commissionerate Automation System, three days prior to the crediting of wages in the individual bank accounts.

Exemption from Maintenance of Registers under WPS: Register of Wages, O T Register, Register of Fines, Register of Deduction for Damage or Loss to Employer.