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According to Minimum Wages Act, 1948, the minimum rate of remuneration to apply in the case of employees employed on piece work for the purpose of securing to such employees a minimum rate of wages on a time work basis is known as

Correct Answer: guaranteed time rate

Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. A minimum rate of wages for the time spent by employees for the production of output is minimum time rate.
2. Minimum piece rate is the rate based on the quantity of the output employees have produced.
3. The guaranteed time rate is a minimum rate of remuneration to apply in the case of employees employed on piece work for the purpose of securing to such employees a minimum rate of wages on a time work basis.
4. A minimum rate of remuneration to apply in the case of employees employed on piece work for the purpose of securing to such employees a minimum rate of wages on a time work basis is overtime rate.

Which of the following is correct in context of Minimum Wages Act, 1948?
1. In case an employee whose minimum rate of wages is fixed under this act, works overtime, the employer is bound to pay the money for the extra hours devoted by the employee.
2. In case an employee is involved in two or more classes of work, he shall be paid on the piece basis.
3. If an employee is employed on piece work for which minimum time rate and not a minimum piece rate has been fixed under this act, the employer shall pay to such employee wages at not less than the minimum time rate.

Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. In case an employee whose minimum rate of wages is fixed under this Act, works overtime, the employer need not pay the money for the extra hours devoted by the employee.
2. If an employee whose minimum rate of wages has been fixed under this Act, works for a less number of hours than the requisite number of hours on a given day, he shall be entitled to receive wages in respect ofwork done by him on that day as ifhe had worked for a full normal working day.
3. In case an employee is involved in two or more classes of work, he shall be paid on the basis of pieces involved.
4. If an employee is employed on piece work for which minimum time rate and not a minimum piece rate has been fixed under this Act, the employer shall pay to such employee wages at not less than the minimum time rate.

Consider the following for the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.
1. The appropriate government will have the power to fix the minimum rates of wages payable to employees employed in an employment specified in Part I or Part II of the Schedules.
2. The appropriate government will review and revise the minimum rate of wages after five years.
3. The appropriate government will fix the minimum rate of wages in any scheduled employment in which there are in the whole state less than one thousand employees engaged in such employment.
Which of the following statement given above is/are correct?

Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. The Minimum Wages Act, 1948 came into force on 15th March, 1948.
2. The State-Central Government has the power to appoint a central advisory board for the purpose of advising the Central and State Governments in the matters of the fixation and revision of minimum rates of wages.
3. The minimum rate of wages includes only cost of living allowance.
4. The minimum rates of wages may be fixed by the hour, day, month.

Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. Piece rate system is easy to calculate the wages under this method as it provides certainty of the amount of wage payment to the employee.
2. In time wage system, there is fixed wage because the wages are dependent on the units of pieces produced.
3. Time wage system is based on the fact that the workers are paid on the basis of amount of time they spend on the doing the particular job.
4. Piece rate system is based on the fact that workers are paid the wages on the basis of quantity and quality of work performed by them.

Which of the following is correct in context of Minimum Wages Act, 1948?
1. The minimum rate of wages will be fixed or revised by the appropriate government in respect of scheduled employment sunder Section 3.
2. Cost of living allowance includes basic wages.
3. The government has the power to appoint an advisory board for the matter of fixing and revising minimum rates of wages.
4. One-third members of the Central Advisory Board will be independent.

Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. Wages includes remuneration payable under any award or settlement between the parties or order of a court.
2. The employer needs to fix wage period for the payment of wages and this period shall not exceed two months.
3. Wages do not include travelling allowance or the value of any travelling concession.
4. In case of a person who is working in any railway factory or industrial or other establishment upon or in which more than one thousand persons are employed, the wages need to be paid by tenth of that month.

Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. The employer needs to maintain a register of the employees working under him. This register needs to be preserved for a period of two years after the date of the last entry made therein.
2. In case of a person who is working in any railway factory or industrial or other establishment upon or in which more than one thousand persons are employed, the wages need to be paid by tenth of that month.
3. In case of a person who is working in any railway factory or industrial or other establishment upon or in which less than one thousand persons are employed, the wages need to be paid by third of that month.
4. In case, an employer terminates an employee, the wages earned by him must be paid before the expiry of the second working day from the day on which his employment is terminated.

Which of the following is correct in context of Inter-state Workmen Regulation Act, 1979?
1. An inter-state migrant workman shall be paid twice than the wages fixed under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.
2. Wages payable to an inter-state migrant workman/under this section shall be paid in 'cash' only.
3. The contractor is bound to pay every inter-state migrant workman at the time of recruitment, a displacement allowance equal to 50% of the monthly wages payable to him or ninety-five rupees.