Following a diktat from Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung, the Delhi government has been compelled to start the entire exercise of computing the revised minimum wages afresh. It will meet on September 23 to start fresh discussions to fix minimum wages,” said a top State Labour Ministry official. Mr. Jung had earlier this month sent back the Delhi government’s proposal to substantially hike the minimum wage asking it to restart the entire process. The Delhi government had proposed increasing minimum wages for unskilled workers from Rs 9,568 to Rs 14,052 a month. The expenditure on food, which constitutes roughly around 65 per cent of the entire wage component, was thereby overestimated hiking the minimum wage, the industry body claimed.

Source: The Hindu September 17, 2016 21:45 UTC