The Payment wages act 1936 is a regulation drawn up to protect the employee’s rights from being

infringed by the employer. The employee should be paid on time and should not be harassed for
anything but due to globalization and fast technological and industrial changes the payment of wages
looks to be outdated. The code of wages 2019 is a move on part of parliament to curb the loopholes of
related to payment and deduction of wages under labor law. However it looks like that even after such a
reformative move some loopholes and flaws still persist.

With the growth of Industries in India, problems relating to payment of wages to persons

employed in industry took an ugly turn. The industrial units were not making payment of wages

to their workers at regular intervals and wages were not uniform. The industrial workers were

forced to raise their head against their exploitation. The Govt. of India addressed the local

government in 1926 to ascertain the position with regard to the delays occurred in the payment

of wages to persons employed in industry and practice of imposing fines on them. The

investigation reveals the existence of abuses in both directions and the material collected was

placed before the Royal Commission of Labour appointed in 1929. On the basis of the report of

the commission the Payment of Wages Bill, 1935 was introduced in the legislative assembly in

February, 1935 and received the approval in 1936. It came to be known Payment of Wages

Act, 1936.