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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APPENDIX I, PAGES. (¢). It should not be possible to keep the decree alive for more than three years in all I. .. i .e (2) Debts should rank preferentially in order of their age Cae {e) The possibility of appointing special courts for summary liquidation proceedings should be considered is "us {f) If the law cannot be applied to the poorer classes generally, “¢ industrial workers ”’ would have to be defined, and, in the first instance, it may be necessary to limit the operation of the measure to scheduled industrial areas with power to axtend it to other areas ws If a monetary limit is required, the law may be applied only to workmen in receipt of wages or salary of less than Rs. 100 a month .. . During the first three years of the operation of this law the amount recoverable might be based on three instead of two years’ income and expenditure, and the maximum period during which decrees should remain effective may be four years instead of three years .. 186. Apart from the legislation recommended above, the possibility of reducing the period of limitation for debts and the period within which a decree may be kept alive under the ordinary civil law should be examined 187. Besetting an industrial establishment for the recovery of debts should be made a cognizable offence .. .. . .. 188. Recruiting advances— {a) The recovery of any amount advanced to meet travelling expenses to the place of employment should be made illegal, (6) Other advances to the worker before actual employment begins should be irrecoverable by law, except from the first wage payment .. iv 3 . . 189. Periods of wage payment— (a) Employers should adopt a system of weekly payment. (b) In textile industries, railway and engineering workshops and iron and steel works, the law should require the payment of wages to the process operatives at intervals not exceed- ing 16 days. The appropriate authority should have the power to extend a similar provision to other industries or classes of operatives either generally or in particular centres. In this connection the case of railway workers outside the workshops should be examined, (¢) If any reduction is made in the period of wage payment, no worker should forfeit any privilege or concession which is attached to payment on a monthly basis ss 190. For industrial employees in factories the legal period of notice should in no case exceed a week, whatever the period by which wages are paid 233 233 994. 9224 234 224 234-5 298 2936 240 24] 191. Payment of wages— (a) Legislation should be enacted providing for the payment of wages within 7 days from the expiry of the period in which they have been earned in the ordinary case, and as early as possible but not later than 2 days from the date of discharge in the case of an operative who is discharged.

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