Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XIII. - Indebtedness

Collection:: Economics Books

240 CHAPTER XII. not to relax any hold over the workers is greater than that of the em- ployers, are not likely to favour any step which tends to make the workers more independent. Desirability of Weekly Payments. Our conclusion then is that the prevalence of a monthly period of payment is not in the best interests of the employees. We recommend the general adoption of a system of weekly payments in the belief that it will have important effects on both welfare and efficiency. The advantages to be gained are, in our view, so obvious and definite that the State would be justified in intervening to enforce the general adoption of weekly pay- ments if this could be secured without an unreasonable amount of disloca- tion to industry. At the same time, we are alive to the advisability of proceeding gradually in matters of this kind. There has previously been no attempt in India to regulate the period of wage payment, and it is quite possible that even if the assent of employers is secured the opposition of the jobbers and others who are interested in perpetuating the present system may have serious results. While we would urge on employers everywhere the adoption of the system of weekly payments, we are not prepared to advocate their general enforcement by Government at the present time. It is better to take a preliminary step in that direc- tion in the hope that the wise employers will themselves go much further than the law demands and the others mav at a later date be convinced by the results secured Legislation for Shorter Period. Our proposal is that in the textile industries, railway and en- gineering workshops and iron and steel works the law should require payment of wages to the process operatives at intervals not exceeding 16 days. This will enable textile employers to pay wages either twice a month, or fortnightly, or weekly or by other short periods. It will also render possible the continuation of the system at present prevailing in, Ahmedabad where wages are paid on a Lapta, which is a period varying from 14 to 16 days according to the convenience of each particular mill, The law should also confer on the appropriate authority the power to extend a similar provision to other industries or classes of operatives, either generally or in particular centres. We suggest that the first case examined in this connection should be that of railway workers outside the workshops. There are difficulties here in the matter of payment. which do not arise in other industries, but in the case of certain important classes of workers the period of wage payment might advantageously be reduced. It is, however, of the utmost importance to ensure that if any reduction is made, no worker forfeits any privilege or concession which is attached to payment on a monthly basis. Diwan Chaman Lall considers that the payment of wages weekly should be made statutory. Period of Notice We understand that ordinarily the period of payment determines the extent of notice which is required to determine an employment, Thus.

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