New delhi, Dec. 27 -- The Union labour ministry has decided to go slow in bringing in its much talked about mandatory national minimum wage, five months after it passed the labour code on wages. The move comes against the backdrop of growing opposition to the government's labour reforms.
After wage code act and draft wage code rules, it has also put an internal committee working on the minimum wage into hibernation, at least two government officials said requesting anonymity. "It is not a priority right now. There are challenges at hand both at the micro and macro levels for us," said one of the two officials mentioned above.
There are three challenges to the setting of a national minimum wage, said the other official. These include a gro...