Wages Boards and Industrial Council Act

Arrangement of Sections

1. Industrial Wages Boards

2. Exercise of powers in the States

3. References to commission of inquiry

4. Procedure of commission of inquiry

5. Making of industrial wages board order

6. Abolition of industrial wages board

7. General provisions as to commissions of inquiry

8. Wages

9. Conditions of employment other than wages. 10.Provisions as to orders fixing wages and other conditions. I I. Saving as to rights under other laws

10. Provisions as to orders fixing wages and other conditions

11. Provided that-

12. Employers’ obligations in respect of orders fixing statutory minimum wages or other condit

13. Permit of exemption for workers affected by infirmity or physical injury

14. Duties of industrial wages board in relation to references by the Minister

15. Employer to keep records

16. National Wages Board and Area Minimum Wages Committees

17. Minimum wage recommendations

18. Establishment of joint Industrial Councils

19. Extension of agreements

20. Exemption of marginal employers

21. Officers and their powers

22. Offences by agent, etc

23. Offences and penalties

24. General provisions for certain bodies established in pursuance of this Act

25. Regulations

26. Repeal, and transitional and saving provisions

27. Interpretation

28. Short title

29. reasonable times.

An Act to provide for the establishment of a National Wages Board and Area Minimum Wages Committee for States and for Joint Industrial Councils for particular industries.

[1973 No. I. L.N. 55 of 1974.]

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Industrial Wages Boards

Industrial Wages Boards

1. Establishment of industrial wages boards

[1 st October, 1974]

are unreasonably low or that no adequate machinery exists for the effective regulation of wages or other conditions of employment of those workers:

Provided that no such order shall be made in respect of local government workers.