The document discusses wages and labor laws in India. It notes that India ratified ILO Convention 26 in 1955 regarding minimum wage fixing and amended its Minimum Wages Act. The ILO conventions have influenced India's labor legislation around aspects like working hours, weekly rest, paid holidays, and wages. It also discusses laws related to employing children and young persons, women working at night, and industrial health and safety. The document provides examples of how ILO conventions have been adopted in Indian law in areas like child labor prohibition, minimum wages, and working conditions.

1. TOPIC- WAGES
COUNTRY- INDIA
Different secrets about the wages the government is hiding.
Wage-legislations - India ratified Convention 26 on minimum wages fixing machinery in 1955
and amended Minimum Wages Act to constitute an advisory Committee to advise on this matter.
The ILO's Conventions and Recommendations have had influence on the following:
1. Factories and Mines Legislations with regards to aspects like hours of work, weekly rest,
holiday with pay and wages
a) Employment of children and young persons
b) Employment of women at night
c) Industrial health, safety and welfare.
The topic has been chosen because due to the increasing number of convention followed by
India. India has rich cultural heritage where different parts of the country represent diverse
culturally, geographically an altogether difference experience. The unity in diversity of county
plays its pivotal role. Moreover it gives differences to way which proceeds to wage engagement.
ILO ADOPTATION INDIAN LAW PRACTICAL
OBSERVATION
1.Employment of
children
And whereas conditions of
labour exist involving such
injustice, hardship and
privation to large numbers of
people as to produce unrest
so great that the peace and
harmony of the world are
imperiled; and an
improvement of those
conditions is urgently
required; as, for example, by
the regulation of the hours of
work, including the
establishment of a maximum
working day and week, the
regulation of the labour
supply, the prevention of
unemployment, the provision
of an adequate living wage,
the protection of the worker
against sickness, disease
and injury arising out of his
employment, the protection
of children
Right to education act
article 21 A of Indian
constitution.
Child labour prohibition
act 1986 in which total
ban on child labour.
Even the parents are
subject for punishment
after warning.
Employers are
punishable in the first
time itself.
In the words of nobel
laureate kailash
satyarthi- Kailash
Satyarthi, founder of the
Bachpan Bachao
Andolan,
1. Child labour is
rampant in the
informal sector
2. Right to
Education Act
and those
against child
labour and
schemes such
as the Sarva
Sikhsha
Abhiyan,
universal
primary
schooling plays
a pivotal role.
2.Working condition of
labour
 Thirty-sixth
Labour
Conference held
National Commission of
Labour, Minimum
Wages Act is an
important landmark in
A. K. Padmanabhan,
president of the Centre
of Indian trade Unions
(CITU), said the working

2. in May, 1987
had
recommended
that minimum
wage fixed
under the Act
should bear a
relation to the
concept of
"Poverty Line".
In this regard
the State
Governments
were advised on
15th may 1990
that Rs. 15 per
day shall be the
National
Minimum Wage,
below which the
State
Governments
may not fix
minimum rates
of wages for any
employment.
The National
Commission of
Rural Labour
has also
recommended
that the
minimum wages
should not be
less that Rs. 20
per day, and this
recommendation
has also been
brought to the
notice of the
State
the history of labour
legislation in India.
Act is applicable only to
employments
mentioned in the
schedule to the Act
class in the country was
working under the worst
circumstances and, in
some cases, “bereft of
any dignity