Minimum Wages Act, 1948

Section - 16 - Wages for two or more classes of work

Wages for two or more classes of work.

16. Where an employee does two or more classes of work to each of which a different minimum rate of wages is applicable, the employer shall pay to such employee in respect of the time respectively occupied in each such class of work, wages at not less than the minimum rate in force in respect of each such class.

STATE AMENDMENTS

MADHYA PRADESH

In section 16 for the words "in respect of the time respectively occupied in each such class of work, wages at not less than the minimum rate in respect of each such class" the words "wages at the highest of the rates prescribed for such class" shall be substituted - Madhya Pradesh Act No. 23 of 1961.
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