ABSTRACT
Minimum Wages
Act, 1948-Minimum rates of wages for employment
in Agriculture and works ancillary to agriculture-Revision
of rates-Preliminary Notification-Published.
LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (J2) DEPARTMENT
G.O.(Ms).NO.
10
DATED:
28.3.2005
READ:-
G.O.(2D)
No.107, Labour and Employment (J2) Departrment
Dated 28.10.1999.
From the Commissioner of Land
Reforms, Chennai, letter Ref..No B1/3472/2002 (L.Ref)
dated 25.10.2004. ----- ORDER:
In the Government Order first
read above, the minimum rates of wages for the
employment in Agriculture and works ancillary
to agriculture were revised with effect from
28.10.1999 under the provisions of the Minimum
Wages Act, 1948 following the recommendation
of the Kolappan Committee on Agricultural Labourers.
2. The Commissioner of Land
Reforms in his letter second read above has stated
that Minimum rates of wages for the employment
in Agriculture and works ancillary to agriculture
has to be revised once in two years and the two
year period expired on 28.10.2001. The Commissioner
of Land Reforms after consulting the Collectors
of the Districts has now sent proposal for revision
of the Minimum Wages for agricultural labourers,
based on the instructions of Government of India
regarding fixing the Minimum Wages for agricultural
labourers. The Commissioner of Land Reforms has
furnished draft Preliminary notification.
3.The Government accept the
proposal of the Commissioner of Land Reforms
.The appended Notification will accordingly be
published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette,
both in English and Tamil. The Secretary to Government,
Tamil Development, Culture and Religious Endowments
(Translation) Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600
009 is requested to send the Tamil translation
of the Notification to the Works Manager, Government
Central Press, Chennai-600 079 for the publication
in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette. (BY ORDER OF TE GOVERNOR)
M.B.PRANESH
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT. To
The Works Manager, Government
Central Press, Chennai-79 (for publication in the
Govt.Gazette)(2 copies)
The Secretary to Government, Tamil
Development Culture and Religious Endowments (Translation)
Department, Chennai-600 009(2 copies)
The C.O.L., Chennai-600 006 (5
copies)
The Commissioner of Land Reforms,
Chepauk, Chennai-600 005 (5 copies)
All District Collectors.
The Director of Agriculture, Chennai-600
005
The Director of Economics and
Statistics, Chennai-600 005
The Director of R.D., Chennai-18
The Managing Director, Tamil Nadu
Dairy Development Corporation, Vepery,Chennai-600
007
The M.D., Tamil Nadu Agro-Industries
Corporation, Agro House, Guindy Industrial Estate,
Chennai-32
The M.D., T.N.Poultry Development
Corporation, Chennai.1
The Chief Executive Officer, Khadi
and Village Industries Board Kuralagam, Chennai-1
The Registrar, Tamil Nadu G.D.Naidu
Agricultural University Coimbatore.
All Panchayat Unions Commissioners
in the State through the
Director of Rural Development,
Chennai-15 Copy to:
The Secy. To G.O.I., Min.of
Labour, New Delhi-110 001
The Secy.to Government of Kerala,
Labour and Rehabilitation Department, Thiruvananthapuram
The Secy.to Govt. of A.P., Labour,
Employment and Factories Department, Hyderabad.
The Secy.to Govt. of Karnataka,
Labour Deptt. Bangalore
The Secy.to Govt. of Pondicherry,
Labour Deptt. Pondicherry
All
Sections in theL & E
Deptt. Chennai-9
All Heads of Departments.
The Secy.to Govt. Revenue Deptt.,
Chennai-600 009
The
Secy.to Government, I & T/Agriculture
Department, Chennai-9
The Director, T.N.Institute
of Labour Studies, Slum Clearance
Board Building, Chennai-600
005
SF/SCs //Forwarded by order//
SECTION OFFICER.
APPENDIX
NOTIFICATION.
The following draft of a Notification,
which it is proposed to be issued in exercise of
the powers conferred by clause (b) of sub-section
(1) of section 3 and sub-section (2) of section
5 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (Central Act XI
of 1948), is hereby published for information of
all persons likely to be affected thereby, as required
by clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 5 of
the said Act.
2.Notice is hereby given that
the draft Notification will be taken into consideration
on or after the expiry of two months from the date
of publication of this Notification in the Tamil
Nadu Government Gazette and that any objection
or suggestion, which may be received from any person
with respect thereto before the expiry of the aforesaid
period will be considered by the Government of
Tamil Nadu. Objection and suggestion, if any, should
be addressed to the Secretary to Government of
Tamil Nadu, Labour and Employment Department, Fort
St.George, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009 through
the Commissioner of Land Reforms, Chennai-600 005.
DRAFT NOTIFICATION.
In exercise of the powers conferred
by clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 3 and
sub-section (2) of section 5 of the Minimum Wages
Act, 1948 (Central Act XI of 1948) and in supersession
of the Labour and Employment Department Notification
No.II(2)/LE/1257(a-1)/99 published at pages 1-2
of Part II-Section 2 of the Tamil Nadu Government
Gazette, Extraordinary, dated the 28 th October
1999, the Governor of Tamil Nadu hereby revises
the minimum rates of wages payable to the classes
of employees, employed in agriculture and works
ancillary to agriculture as ,specified in Part-II
of the Schedule to the said Act, in the State of
Tamil Nadu, specified in Column (1) of the Schedule
below and as specified in the corresponding entries
in column (2) thereof:-
THE SCHEDULE.
Classes
of Employees
(1) |
Minimum
rates of wages per day
(2)
Rs. |
(1)
Employees engaged in ploughing with bullocks
and ploughs supplied by him. |
150/- |
(2)Employees
engaged in ploughing with bullocks and ploughs
not supplied by him |
80/- |
(3)
Employees engaged in harvest of paddy reaping,
carrying to thrashing floor, thrashing, winno-wing,
measuring and bagging. |
Rs.80/-
per day for men workers, who do the work
for 6 hours and Rs.70/- per day for women
workers who do the work for five hours or
in kind to the extent of 1/8 th of the gross
yield of produce whichever is higher, per
day. |
(4)
Employees engaged in harvest of crops other
than paddy. |
Rs.80/-
per day for men workers, who do the work
for six hours and Rs.70/- per day for women
workers who do the work for five hours. |
(5)
Employees engaged in sowing, plu cking of
seedling, re-planting of seedlings and for
weeding operations. |
Rs.80/-
per day for men workers, who do the work
for six hours and Rs.70/- per day for women
workes who do the work for five hours. |
(6)
Employees engaged in other agricultural operations,
namely trimming bunds and fields, bee-keeping,
poultry farming, dairy farming and climbing
trees. |
Rs.80/-
per day for men workers who do the work for
six hours and Rs.70/- per day for women workers
who do the work for five hours. |
Explanations.-
(1) The above revised minimum
rates of wages shall also apply to the Agricultural
Labourers employed in Colleges and Research
Stations under the Tamil Nadu
Agricultural University and Agricultural
Farms maintained by the Agriculture,
Horticulture and other Government Departments.
(2) Where there is no difference
in the daily hours of work and where the same work
or work of a similar nature is performed, no distinction
in the payment of wages should be made between
men and women workers as per the Equal Remuneration
Act, 1976.
(3) For the purpose of this Notification,
minimum rate of wages specified above shall be
all inclusive of rate allowing for the basic rate,
cost of living allowance and the cash value of
concession, if any, but it does not include the
cost of food, if any, supplied to the employees
and hence the cost of food shall not be deducted
from the minimum rates of wages paid to the employees.
M.B.PRANESH,
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT
SECTION OFFICER |
