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Week 13
Chapter 31

Payment of Wages
 Payment of Wages Act 1936
• The laws relating to payment of wages are contained in Payment of Wages Act
of 1936

• Applies to payment of wages of employees working in factories or any other

workplace
 Payment of Wages Act 1936
• Section 1: Does not apply to employees getting wages above Rs 6000
• Section 2: Definition
• Factory
• Industrial establishments
• Plantation
• Railway administration
• Wages
• Section 3: Responsibility of payment of wages
• Section 4: Wage periods
• Section 5: Time of payment
 Payment of Wages Act 1936
• Section 6: Medium of payment
• Section 7 - 13: Deductions from wages
• Fines… Section 8
• Absence of duty… Section 9
• Damage of loss…. Section 10
• Services rendered… Section 11
• Advances and over-payment… Section 12
• Cooperative societies and housing schemes… Section 13
• Income tax… Section 14
• Orders of court… Section 15
• Provident fund… Section 16