S.O. 513

What it says

Notification S.O. 513 of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Labour and Employment Department, dated 12 October 2022 and in force from 17 October 2022, revising the minimum rates of wages for the scheduled employments at Annexure-A. Made under sub-section (2) of section 5 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 after consulting the Advisory Board constituted vide Government order 957-JK (GAD) of 2022, the draft having been published as S.O. 315 of 2022 on 27 June 2022 and twenty objections received and considered. Five categories are fixed, per day: unskilled Rs.311, semi-skilled Rs.400, skilled Rs.48

What was taken from it

The figures and statements this desk reads off this document, as extracted. Each one is shown on the topic page it belongs to: Minimum wages · Jammu and Kashmir.

Admin.Annexure

Annexure-B classifies the fifth category as Administrative/Ministerial/Accounts Staff, with 15 entries ending in any other categories by whatever name called which are of a Administrative/Ministerial/Accounts/Clerical nature

Admin.Day

449

Classification

Annexure-B classifies job titles by skill and by industry and states that the classification is only of illustrative nature and is not exhaustive

Copy

The departmental copy. Its distribution list directs the General Manager, Government Press to publish the notification in the Government Gazette, so a gazette version is a separate document this desk does not hold

Currency

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Draft

S.O. 315 of 2022 dated 27.06.2022, on which 20 objections, suggestions and comments were received within the two-month period and placed before the Advisory Board

Duplicate

Trolly Man is printed twice in the unskilled construction list of Annexure-B, at Sl. Nos. 41 and 45. Recorded as printed; nothing is inferred from it

Employments

45 scheduled employments in Part-I of Annexure-A, with agriculture alone in Part-II

Handwritten

The serial 513 in the S.O. number and the day 12 in the date line are written by hand on an otherwise printed form, and the countersignature is hand-dated 12.10.22 on every page

Highly.Day

552

In.Force

17 October 2022, five days after the notification was signed

Ladakh

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh both schedule 45 employments in Part-I with agriculture alone in Part-II and both fix a separate administrative and ministerial category outside the skill ladder, because both descend from the same pre-2019 schedule. No figure is taken from one jurisdiction to the other

Monthly

Not fixed. The notification fixes rates by the day and gives no monthly figure and no rule for working one out

Power

Sub-section (2) of section 5 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, after consulting the Advisory Board constituted vide Government order no. 957-JK (GAD) of 2022 dated 18.08.2022

Sce.Act

Employment in Shops and Establishments is the seventeenth of the 45 scheduled employments in Part-I, so shops legislation exists; its text could not be obtained

Semi.Day

400

Skilled.Day

483

So

S.O. 513, notification of 12 October 2022, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Labour and Employment Department, No. LE-Genl/56/2022-11-L&E

Unskilled.Day

311

Where this is cited

• Minimum wages · Jammu and Kashmir