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The Kerala High Court today stayed an order of the Labour Commissioner, Thiruvananthapuram, directing that wages of estate workers be paid through bank accounts. Considering a petition filed by Devikulam Estate Workers' Union (AITUC) leader M V Ouseph, Justice A Muhammed Mustaq directed that payment of wages be continued as was being done post demonetization. Ouseph had submitted that the state  government  had issued a  Government  Order on November 17 as per which estate owners were to hand over the requisite cheque for payment of wages to workers to the district collector.  They in turn would encash the cheque through the district treasury and return the  cash  to estate owners for payment of wages to the workers.  Citing the G.O., Ouseph said the Labour Commissioner's circular directing the Chief Inspector of Plantations to ensure that all employees have  bank  accounts for disbursement...

Industries and businesses will have a free hand to pay employees their salary by cheque or direct bank transfer rather than cash on the next payday. President Pranab Mukherjee promulgated the ordinance to amend the Payment of Wages Act on Wednesday evening as proposed by the Union cabinet last week. The ordinance comes into force with immediate effect. The law – which currently covers those earning a monthly salary of Rs 18,000 or less – had mandated that employees be paid in cash only. It was amended during Emergency, in 1976, to give employers the option of crediting the salary into the employees’ bank account or pay by cheque. But this could be done only if the employer had a written authorisation from each worker. If there were employees who preferred to receive the money in cash, the employer could not, say, pay by cheque. The ordinance cleared by Rashtrapati Bhavan removes the requirement of obtaining written authorisation from workers. Labour minister Band...

It is seen from the media reports that there is a general impression that is being created that the Government is bringing an amendment to the Payment of Wages Act to make mandatory the payment of wages to the workers only through cheque or accounts transfers. This is not the correct position. It is clarified that the government proposes to bring an amendment to Section 6 of the Payment of Wages Act which will further provide crediting the wages in the bank account of the employees or payment through cheque along with the existing provisions of payment in current coin or currency notes. This is being done to facilitate the employers from making payment of wages using the banking facilities also in addition to the existing modes of payment of wages in current coin or currency notes. Also, the appropriate Government (Centre or State) will have to come up with the notification to specify the industrial or other establishments where the employer shall pay wages through cheque...

The Ministry of Labour and Employment is keen that the amendments to the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 are passed in the current session of Parliament itself in order to ensure that all industrial workers get their wages only through the banking channel and not otherwise. Proposed Amendment  The Payment of Wages Act, 1936 regulates the payment of wages of certain classes of employed persons. Section 6 of the Act envisages that all wages shall be paid in current coin or currency notes or in both. However, a proviso was inserted in section 6 of the said Act in the year 1975 enabling the employer, after obtaining the written authorization of the employed person, to pay him the wages either by cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account.

Dear Employer, As per the direction of Government of India, the following advisory is issued for your necessary compliance from EPFO Departments  :  "For financial inclusion of worker, all Establishment are advised to make timely payment of wages through bank account. Pre-paid cards of suitable denomination can also be issue for making part payment." Also  Please find the above circular issued dated 25 November 2016 from Ministry of Labour and Employment, New Delhi regarding “launching a campaign to open bank accounts in respect of those workers of organized and unorganized sector who do not have their own bank account till date". To explain further it can say that,  we all seen one of the big changes in Indian currency, thus with that things in mind our Government of India given directives for a campaign which has been launched at various places to open bank accounts of those employees who do not have their own bank account till date....

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