Important obligations for the employer’s are as follows

1. As and when proposals for revision of the minimum wages are published in the official gazette, the employer may, if he wants, send his representations on the proposed revision to the Government.

2. Once the minimum wages are notified and become effective, the employer must pay to every employee engaged in a scheduled employment under him, the wages at a rate not less than the minimum rate of wages fixed by such notification for that class of employee.

3. The employer may make deductions out of wages as may be authorised.

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4. As and when proposals for revision of the minimum wages are published in the official gazettes the employer shall have option to send his representation to the Government on the proposed revi­sion.

5. Upon having been the minimum wages notified and becoming effective for once, the employer must pay to every employee in a scheduled employment under him wages at a rate not less than minimum rate of wages fixed by such notification for that class of employees.

6. The employer may make deductions out of wages as may be authorised.

7. The employer shall pay overtime at double the ordinary rate of wages for the period of work done beyond nine hours on any day or 48 hours in any week or for rest day.

8. The employer should not employ a child for more than 4Vi hours on any day.

9. The employer must pay minimum wages in cash unless the Govt. authorises their payment wholly or partly in kind.

10. The employer shall fix wage-period for the payment of wages at intervals not exceeding one month or such other larger period as may be prescribed.

11. The employer shall pay wages on l working day within seven days of the end of wage period or within 10 days if 1000 or more persons are employed in an establishment.

12. The employer shall pay the wages o a person discharged not later than the second working day after his discharge.

13. If an employee is employed on any day for a period less than the normal working day, he shall be entitled to receive wages for a full normal working day provided his failure to work is not caused by his unwillingness to work but by the omission of the employer to provide him work for that period.

14. Where an employee does two or more classes of work to each of which a different minimum rate of wages is applicable, the em­ployer shall pay to such employee in respect of time respectively occupied in each such class of work, wages not less than the minimum rate in force in respect of each such class.

15. Where an employee is employed on piece work for which mini­mum time rate and not a minimum piece rate has been fixed, the employer shall pay to such employee wages at not less than the minimum time rate.

16. The employer shall fix working days of an adult worker which may be for a maximum of nine hours a day but this period shall not exceed 12 hours on any day.

17. The employer shall allow a rest day with wages to the employees every week which ordinarily should be Sunday or any other day as fixed by the employer. No employee shall be required to work on a day fixed as rest day unless he is paid wages for that day at the overtime rate and is also allowed a substituted rest day with wages.

18. The employer shall not make deductions from wages except those authorised by or under the rules.

19. Every employer shall maintain at the work spot a register of wages in the form prescribed specifying the following particulars for each wage period in respect of each employed person:

(a) Minimum rate of wages payable.

(b) The number of days in which overtime was worked.

(c) The gross wages.

(d) The wages actually paid and the date of payment.

20. The employer shall issue wage slips in the form prescribed con­taining prescribed particulars to every person employed.

21. 18. Every employer shall get the signature or the thumb impression of every person employed on the wage book and the wage slips.

22. The employer or his agent should authenticate the entries in the wage books and the wage slips.

23. The employer, intending to impose a fine on an employed person or to make deduction for damage or loss caused by him, shall inform personally and in writing to him giving an opportunity to offer any explanation in the presence of another person.

24. The amount of the said fine or deduction shall also be intimated to him.

25. The employer shall ensure that all such fines imposed and deduc­tions made shall be recorded in the registers in Forms I and II respectively. These registers should be kept at the work spot.

26. Where no fines or deductions are imposed, a nil entry shall be made across the body of the relevant register.

27. The employer shall exhibit at main entrance to the establishment and its offices, a notice in respect of the following in English and local language in a clean and legible form:

(a) Minimum rates of wages.

(b) Abstracts of the Acts and rules made there under.

(c) Name and address of the inspector.

28. The employer shall preserve register of wages, muster-roll, register of fines, register of deductions for damage or loss and register of overtime for a period of three years after the date of last entry made, there in.

29. The employer shall produce all such registers and record on de­mand before the Inspector. Where an establishment has been closed, the employers should produce such register in his office if asked for.