Govt sets up an expert panel to fix minimum pay
- Ministry of Labour & Employment has constituted the Expert Group to provide recommendations to the government on fixation of Minimum Wages and National Floor Minimum Wages.
- This expert group has been constituted for a period of three years and is chaired by Ajit Mishra.
- The current floor wage, which was fixed in 2017, is at Rs 176 a day, but some states have minimum wages lower than it.
- This is the second expert committee on minimum wages formed by the government within the last two years.
- The earlier panel, headed by Anoop Satpathy, Fellow, VV Giri National Labour Institute, was set up by the ministry on January 17, 2018, to determine the methodology for fixing the national minimum wage.
- The recommendations, which weren’t accepted by the Centre, included setting the national floor wage at Rs 375 per day (Rs 9,750 per month) as per July 2018 prices.