C-Quel Presentation: Code on Wages, 2019

• The Code on Wages, 2019 has been passed by Parliament. The Central Government is yet to announce the effective date by notification in the Official Gazette; and different dates may be notified for different provisions of this code.

• This Code subsumes the Payment of Wages Act 1936, Minimum Wages Act 1948, Payment of Bonus Act of 1965 and Equal Remuneration Act of 1976 – into a single code