Minimum Pay
5.1.26 The JCM-Staff Side, in their
memorandum, have proposed that the minimum salary, at the lowest level, should
be determined using a need based approach. They have proposed that the minimum
wage for a single worker be based on the norms set by the 15th Indian Labour Conference,
with certain additions to the same. The minimum pay as suggested in the memorandum is ₹26,000,
which is around 3.7 times the existing minimum salary of ₹7,000.
While the broad approach is similar, the specifics do vary and the Commission
has, based on need-based minimum wage for a single worker with family as
defined in the Aykroyd formula, computed the minimum pay at ₹18,000.
Details on the computation of minimum pay have been brought out in Chapter 4.2.
