Minimum Wages

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has announced that the minimum monthly wage will increase from the current 1,302 reais to 1,320 reais ($251) starting May

The move may play a significant role in helping India meet its Sustainable Development Goal to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030

12 states, UTs have so far not published draft rules on at least 1 labour code

That makes the state, the headquarters of Amazon's operations in Australia, the first place where it must pay wages to contractors that are set by law, the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) said

Turkey's minimum wage will be 4,250 Turkish liras ($272) in 2022, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, announcing a nearly 50-per cent increase

Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister on Monday announced an increase in the minimum wages of the labourers

"He's committed to getting it done," he said. "We were disappointed by the parliamentarian's ruling."

In a Q&A, the Labour and Employment Minister says Removal of rigidity in labour laws, reducing compliance levels would stimulate setting up larger industries generate employment

The letter was published following media reports of workers being paid below the UK minimum wage

Minimal changes in previous draft made public in November 2019; minimum working hours norm reversed

Radhicka Kapoor, senior fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, said the government has to create policies for boosting demand

Companies set up within a year of the law coming into effect will be eligible for exemption from almost all the labour laws for 1,200 days

No announcement on guaranteed minimum basic income which is the need of the hour, no immediate gains from ration card portability, they say

The Punjab government had hiked the dearness allowance component of the minimum wage by over four per cent on May 1

Chavan said the government must tell by how much income of farmers has increased in the last five years, as part of its promise of doubling their income by 2022

Even if the salary of a person permanently injured while working exceeds Rs 8,000, the compensation should be fixed

The government is yet to issue a separate order notifying the date of its implementation

Minimum wages should meet present-day requirements

The ministry has come out with a list of occupations skill-wise, which will be dynamic in nature," a senior labour ministry official said, requesting anonymity.

The Bill will subsume four labour laws -- Minimum Wages Act, Payment of Wages Act, Payment of Bonus Act and Equal Remuneration Act