The Payment of Wages (amendment) act, 2017 comparison with old provision and their effects
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Comparison between provision under the payment of wages act 1936, and
the Payment of Wages (amendment) act, 2017
- New Provision
For section 6 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, following section has been substituted, namely:-
"6. All wages shall be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or by crediting the wages in the bank account of the employee:
Provided that the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the industrial or other establishment, the employer of which shall pay to every person employed in such industrial or other establishment, the wages only by cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account."
The Payment of Wages (Amendment) Ordinance, 2016 is hereby repealed.
Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, as amended by the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of the said Act, as amended by this Act.
2. Old provisionSection 6 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 provide that all the wages shall be paid in current coin or currency notes or in both:
There is proviso in section 6 that if the employer want to pay the wages either by cheque or by crediting the wages in bank account, the employer can do so only after obtaining written authorisation of the employed person.
3. Conclusion:
By substituting the word “ or by cheque or by crediting the wages in the bank account of the employee in section 6 of the Payment of Wages (amendment) act, 2017, law itself providing power to the employer to pay the wages by cheque or by crediting the wages in the bank account.
Further law giving the power to appropriate government to specify the industries or establishment, the employer of which shall pay the wages either by cheque or crediting the bank account of employee.
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