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Supreme Court Urges State Govts To Consider Plea Seeking Minimum Wages For Domestic Workers
['Anmol Kaur Bawa']
Supreme Court - High Court - Legal Breaking News | Live Law India
The Supreme Court today urged all State Governments to consider the issue of notifying minimum wages for domestic workers, while considering a Public Interest Litigation seeking to include domestic workers under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 which is now replaced by the Code of Wages,2019.
He submitted that while some states have brought domestic workers under minimum wages notifcation, many other states have not.
He urged the Court to seek an explanation from those States for not notifying the minimum wages for domestic workers.
Without regulation, domestic workers' wages and work conditions are determined solely at their employers' discretion.
Employers set unreasonably low wages, deduct them arbitrarily, withhold wages and terminate domestic workers without notice and pay."