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 XVI. - Workmen's compensation

Collection:: Economics Books

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION, 305 wage is seldom as low as Rs. 8 monthly ; and, in our view, an allowance of half-wages is too small when the wage is low. We recommend that, for adults in receipt of not more than Rs. 30, payments for temporary disablement be based on two-thirds of wages, and for minors on the full-wage rate. The scale should be subject to a minimum of Rs. 5 for each half-monthly payment, in place of the present minimum of Rs. 2, but the rate of compensation should not, of course, exceed the rate of wages. This will resultin all adults in receipt of not more than Rs. 15 monthly getting full wages during temporary disablement (except during the waiting period). No person receiving more than Rs. 30 a month should receive less compensation than he would have got if his wage had been Rs. 30. Further, we recommend the fixing of the minimum compensation for death in the case of adults at Rs. 600 and for complete permanent disablement at Rs. 840. The minima for partial permanent disablement should be correspondingly raised. This is equivalent to making the minimum wage for compensation, except in the case of temporary disablement, equal to Rs. 20. At the other end of the scale, we consider that the maxima are unduly low. The workman on Rs. 250, if temporarily disabled, gets no more than the workman on Rs. 60 ; if he is permanently disabled, he gets the same as the workman on Rs. 80. Proposed Scale. } We recommend enhanced compensation on a scale which can be most clearly indicated by giving the alterations necessary in Schedule IV. In place of the fourteen existing wage classes, we would make seventeen, the upper wage limits for which should be (in rupees) 10, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60, 70, 80, 100, 200 and 300. Except in the last two classes, the assumed wage should be the highest wage of the class and not, as at present, the mean wage. Thus the eighth class would consist of persons receiving more than Rs. 30 but not more than Rs. 35 and the assumed wage for that class would be Rs. 35. The division into bwo classes of those getting not more than Rs. 15 will affect minors only, and the compensation for death or permanent disablement to adults will be identical for the first three classes and will be based on a wage of Rs. 20. We recommend for the last two classes assumed wages of Rs. 125 and 150 respectively, and that the maximum half-monthly payment, which is at present Rs. 15, be raised to Rs. 30. The changes in the method of calculating assumed wages will produce a small enhancement in the general level of the scales, apart from the substantial enhancements arising from the raising of both the minima and the proportion of wages payable to the poorer workmen ; while the effect on workmen at the top of the scale will be marked. If our recommendations are adopted the maxima for death and permanent total disablement will be raised from Rs. 2,500 and Rs. 3,500 to Rs. 4,500 and Rs. 6,300 respectively, while all workmen getting over Rs. 100 a month will receive compensation for temporary disablement at the rate of Rs. 60 a month. The compensation in the case of fatal accidents to minors should not be changed : and, as at present,

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