Narrator: Hello friends. Can we hear more about history of law related to payment of wages. James: Under 1936Act's protocol the payment of wage is mentioned. Before 1936, there was a nonsystematic practice among the workers. Weekly wages, daily wages, wages given once in 6months, wages given once in a year, many such practices were practiced by companies and owners. By understanding this and based on a complaint given by individuals, few verdicts were given. Among those verdicts, main one was, weekly wage system. They have passed a bill call, weekly payment bill. It came to existence in the year 1925. Under this Act, the payment should be given to the workers at the end of 6th working day. i.e if a worker is working from Monday to Saturday, he should be given the payment on Saturday evening. The GO was passed. After that many protests were conducted in different places. As a result of a continued protest by workers, a team was formed in the name of royal commission on labour. This team proposed some points to central Govt. Based on those suggestions, Payment of Wages Act was introduced in the year 1936. This Act explains about how wages can be calculated. Based on the work culture, man power of the worker involved for the work, how many calories a worker is burning to the work, will be calculated and based on that wages will be calculated. Though this was not accurate, but it was given on an approximate rate. Earlier it was even applied to Railways dept. As per the Act, If the work is given to a contractor, even the contractor should pay the wages to their workers accordingly. If the contractor has appointed 2 more contractors under him, even for them this law is applicable.
