7th As pay day
MAMTA BATRA
(Querist) 07 February 2011
This query is : Resolved
Hi,
Under which Act it is written that salary/wage should be paid within 7 days of the expiry of the salary/wage period.
Parveen Kr. Aggarwal
(Expert) 07 February 2011
Section 5 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936:
"5. Time of payment of wages: (1) The wages of every person employed upon or in -
(a) any railway factory or industrial or other establishment upon or in which less than one thousand persons are employed, shall be paid before the expiry of the seventh day,
(b) any other railway factory or industrial or other establishment shall be paid before the expiry of the tenth day, after the last day of the wage-period in respect of which the wages are payable :
Provided that in the case of persons employed on a dock wharf or jetty or in a mine the balance of wages found due on completion of the final tonnage account of the ship or wagons loaded or unloaded as the case may be shall be paid before the expiry of the seventh day from the day of such completion.
(2) Where the employment of any person is terminated by or on behalf of the employer the wages earned by him shall be paid before the expiry of the second working day from the day on which his employment is terminated :
Provided that where the employment of any person in an establishment is terminated due to the closure of the establishment for any reason other than a weekly or other recognised holiday the wages earned by him shall be paid before the expiry of the second day from the day on which his employment is so terminated."
(3) The State Government may by general or special order exempt to such extent and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order the person responsible for the payment of wages to persons employed upon any railway (otherwise than in a factory) or to persons employed as daily-rated workers in the Public Works Department of the Central Government or the State Government from the operation of this section in respect of wages of any such persons or class of such persons :
Provided that in the case of persons employed as daily-rated workers as aforesaid no such order shall be except in consultation with the Central Government.
(4) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2) all payments of wages shall be made on a working day.
Kirti Kar Tripathi
(Expert) 08 February 2011
Mr. Praveen is correct. It is Payment of Wages Act.
MAMTA BATRA
(Querist) 08 February 2011
This Act appplies in case amt of wages is upto 6500/-,
what if it is more than that
