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MINIMUM WAGES IN INDIA: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF WAGE REGULATION, SOCIAL SECURITY & INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Abstract
Abstract
Minimum wages can be defined as the
lowest pay that an employer can give workers for their time. Minimum wages as
an concept is an important instrument of providing for dignity of labour and
ensuring that they are provided with enough wages in correlation with their
work and maintain a certain standard of living. Wages should refer to the
payment or a consideration for the work performed for a time over a period
specified. The consideration is for the time and efforts they provide. The
employed person may be an employee, or any worker that is working in an
organized or may be an unorganized sector. It is always assumed that the wages
are in correlated to the skill and experience that an particular individual
possesses, but in practicality it is seen that an individual who is employed
for a task in India who earns minimum wages or low wages, but with a similar
skills or experience earn a significantly higher wage in another country. The
Code on Wages, 2019 retains a fragmented and decentralised wage-fixation structure,
limiting the creation of a uniform and dynamically enforceable national wage
floor and perpetuating inter-state and inter-sectoral disparities. Its weak
convergence with the Code on Social Security, 2020 further leaves informal,
unorganised and gig workers without an integrated system linking wage
protection with portable and adequate social-security benefits.Both Codes also
lack modern pay-transparency and disclosure mechanisms. The absence of
mandatory pay-range disclosure, gender-disaggregated wage data and effective
platform reporting limits the ability to identify wage inequalities and enforce
social-security rights. India therefore requires an integrated framework
combining a formula-based and automatically revisable national floor wage, stronger
coordination between wage and social-security systems, and transparent
wage-data and reporting obligations. Such reforms can transform fragmented
statutory protections into an enforceable and equitable wage and
social-security floor.
Published Paper
Author Details
Authors: PARIDHI RAUT
Registration ID: 1013189 | Published Paper ID: IJLRA13189
Year: Sep-2026 | Volume: 3 | Issue: 6
Approved ISSN: 2582-6433 | Country: Delhi, India
Page No.: 1085-1104
Article Information
MINIMUM WAGES IN INDIA: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF WAGE REGULATION, SOCIAL SECURITY & INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Authors: PARIDHI RAUT
- Journal IJLRA
- ISSN 2582-6433
- Volume 3
- Issue 6
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International Journal for Legal Research and Analysis
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