Wage Cell [Minimum Wages]
Items of Work	Other Information
1. Minimum Wages Act, 1948	Section Name: Wage Cell (MW) Room No.: 301 Telephone No.: Auto 23001306 : 2306 Officers in Channel: Shri Kishori Lal – Assistant Director Smt. Bhawna– Deputy Director Shri A.V. Singh – Director Dr. Harcharan Singh – DDG Dr. Ashok Sahu – Economic Adviser Shri R.C. Ray – Labour & Employment Adviser Secretary Visit also at : www.labour.gov.in http://labour.nic.in/wagecell/welcome.html
2. Payment of Wages Act, 1936.
3. Extension of Minimum Wages Act to employments.
4. To advise the State Governments in the matter of finalization of minimum wages in the employments for which the State Governments are the Appropriate Governments.
5. Implementation of Minimum Wages Act in Central Sphere.
6. Implementation of Payment of Wages Act in Central Sphere.
7. To render advice in the matter of fixation of daily wage rates for unskilled workers.
8. Wage Policy.
9. Matters relating to amalgamation of sick units with healthy units.
10. Work relating to productivity.
11. Monitoring of progress of Minimum Wages Act in States through Half Yearly Reports from the State Governments.
12. Maintaining wage statistics fixed under the Minimum Wages Act by all State Governments.
13. Publication of Yearly Booklet depicting latest rates of minimum wages across the country.
14. Publication of Labour Statistics at a Glance – a Pocket Book.
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