29/DL
Sikkim minimum wage notification No. 29/DL of 14 September 2022, Sikkim Government Gazette Extraordinary No. 368
- Notification number
- 29/DL
- Issued for
- Sikkim
- Date
- 14 September 2022
- Topic
- Minimum wages
What it says
Revises the minimum rates of wages under section 5(1)(b) read with sections 26(2), 26(2A) and 27 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, in supersession of Notification No. 11/DL of 2017. Daily rates of Rs. 500 unskilled, Rs. 520 semi-skilled, Rs. 535 skilled and Rs. 565 highly skilled, inclusive of dearness allowance, effective 11 July 2022. No zones; instead a stated percentage more for work at altitude - 50 per cent above 8,000 ft, 75 per cent above 12,000 ft and double above 16,000 ft. Classifies 151 job titles into the four categories.
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- Holidays.Weekly
- One paid holiday where a worker works six consecutive days in a week without being absent, on a Sunday or any other Haat day
- Hours.Daily
- 9 hours in a day, with a break of one hour
- Hours.Overtime.Trigger
- Overtime begins beyond 8 hours in a day or 48 in a week, although the daily limit is 9 hours
- Hours.Weekly
- 48 hours in a week is the point beyond which overtime is payable
- Allowance
- Included. The revised rates are inclusive of dearness allowance, but exclusive of other concessions
- Altitude.Uplift
- Up to 8,000 ft normal wages; 8,001 to 12,000 ft 50 per cent more; 12,001 to 16,000 ft 75 per cent more; 16,001 ft and above double the normal wage
- Basis.Law
- Section 5(1)(b) read with sections 26(2), 26(2A) and 27 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948
- Categories
- 151 job titles classified - 39 unskilled, 54 semi-skilled, 50 skilled and 8 highly skilled
- Classification.Disputes
- Referred to the Labour Department, Government of Sikkim, whose decision is final
- Date
- 14 September 2022, effective 11 July 2022
- Definitions
- The notification defines unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled and highly-skilled work in its explanation
- Gazette
- Sikkim Government Gazette Extraordinary No. 368, Gangtok, Wednesday 14 September 2022
- Highly.Day
- 565
- Note.Numbering
- The notes run 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 - there is no note 6
- Previous
- Rs. 300, Rs. 320, Rs. 335 and Rs. 365 a day
- Semi.Day
- 520
- Skilled.Day
- 535
- Stability
- Unrevised since 11 July 2022
- Unskilled.Day
- 500
- Zones
- None. One rate set covers the whole State and every scheduled employment
- Overtime.Rate
- Twice the ordinary rate of wages