Srinagar, May 26 -- The J&K & Ladakh High Court has held that Section 12 of the Minimum Wages Act casts a legally enforceable duty upon the employer to pay every employee wages at a rate not less than the minimum wages fixed.
The judgment was passed in a writ petition filed by scores of need-based casual labourers engaged by the government in different departments since 2014.
The petitioners pleaded that they were being paid rupees 100 per day, which is against the mandate of the Minimum Wages Act
Justice Sanja Dhar, while passing his judgment on the petition, recorded that since the minimum wages have been fixed by the Government of J&K in terms of Government Orders dated 25.01.2018 and 23.04.2022, as such the respondents cannot deny th...