Publish Revised Minimum Wages Gazette in Six Weeks, TS Govt Told

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Monday issued directions to the state government to revise minimum wages in accordance with provisions of Minimum Wages Act, 1948. and to publish the same in a gazette within six  weeks.

The division bench, comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar, was dealing with a PIL pertaining to non-payment of revised minimum rates of wages as per the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 in respect of 73 scheduled employments.

Chikkudu Prabhakar,  counsel for the petitioner submitted that even though the state Government had issued five G.O.s on 25 June 2021 and 30 June 2021 prescribing revised minimum wages, the same are not being published.

However, the government counsel explained that the G.Os are yet to be revised in the backdrop of some objections raised by industries and establishments. Objecting to the same, Prabhakar complained that the ruling party in the state has appointed its party worker as the chairman of the Minimum Wages Board, and now the submissions of the government counsels indicate that the government is not wishing to implement the revised minimum wages.

The court directed the state government to complete the process and  publish the gazette within six weeks.