Report on an enquiry into wages and hours of labour in the cotton mill industry, 1926

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Identifikator:: 1827868163

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221455

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on an enquiry into wages and hours of labour in the cotton mill industry, 1926

Place of publication:: Bombay

Publisher:: Government Central Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: III, 172 S.; zahlr. Tab

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. Methods of wage payments

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER II Methods of Wage Payments p & 23. There is a very wide variation in the systems adopted at different centres with regard to the methods of calculating wages. In the case of she mills in Bombay City there is first a * basic ” rate to which is added 4 dearness allowance of 80 per cent. for male piece-workers and 70 per cent. for male time workers and all female workers. Those mills which grant a good attendance bonus add the amount of the bonus granted to she gross wage from which, before arriving at the net wage payable, are deducted any fines that might be inflicted. The term basic ” in the case of the Bombay mills may be generally considered to apply to the pre-war year although in the case of some individual mills it might ipply to any year between 1913 and 1918 when the first increase of ib per cent. as a dearness allowance was granted. 24. In many mills the percentage addition is calculated on the actual amount earned on the basic rates, but in some cases the calculation is nade on whole rupees only and the annas (irrespective of the amount) ire not taken into consideration. For example, if a woman reeler in those mills earns Rs. 11-14-0 on the basic rates, the 70 per cent. addition is calculated on Rs. 11 only and she gets Rs. 19-9-2 instead of Rs. 20-3-0. After the addition of the dearness allowance, most mills round up tothe 1earest eight annas in payment. In some cases, however, rounding is fected to the lowest two annas, the differences in cutting being utilised for welfare work, especially medical aid. In all mills in Bombay City wages are calculated on a monthly basis and payments are effected from [2 to 15 days after they become due. In those months where importont 1lidays or festivals occur between the 10th and the 15th, pavment is fected earlier. 25. In the Ahmedabad mills there is not only a complete lack of Iniformity in the methods adopted in calculating the different additions and deductions before arriving at the final earnings, but wide variations in the methods adopted also exist for different classes of workers in a particular mill. In the first place there is what is hypothetically called a “basic ” rate. The term “basic” does not apply to any particular period for the whole industry. It varies as between groups of occupations and also between mill and mill. In the case of some occupations the berm may relate to the pre-war year. In the case of others it may relate bo any other year. But for particular occupations covered by the awards of Arbitrators it relates to the date on which an award for a percentage or a flat rate of increase was granted. Next to the “ basic ”” rate comes the moghwari or dearness allowance. In the case of certain occupations and generally in the case of monthly paid workers, this allowance was tonsolidated with the basic rate and in others it was kept as a separate item on the muster. Cases commonly occurred where different methods obtained for different individuals in the same occupation group in a particular mill. Some mills consolidated one or two of the first increas:

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