Minimum wages

The same notification also says

• This notification is made under section 6(1) of the Code on Wages, 2019, not the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 — issued in pursuance of section 69(2) of the Code and continuing in force under section 7(2) until a further order is issued.
• It names no scheduled employments at all. Unlike Bihar's 89 or Odisha's 91, it varies only by area and by skill, and applies to employments across the State.
• The notification publishes a daily table and a monthly table, and they do not reconcile: ₹515 a day in Area A is ₹13,385 a month, where 515 multiplied by 26 is 13,390. Its note (c) has the allowance rounded to whole numbers, and it is rounded separately at each cadence; its note (e) then gives the conversion as dividing by 26 and multiplying by 26. Both language texts agree on both tables, so this is the instrument's own arithmetic rather than an artefact.
• The basic rates were fixed with effect from 11 March 2024 on the index of 386 for June 2023. Note (a) calls 386 the June 2023 index while the body of the notification calls it the average for January to June 2023; both statements are in the same document.
• The allowance is ten per cent: the average index for July to December 2025 is 147.5, which converts to 425 on a factor of 2.88, a rise of 39 points over 386, or 10.10 per cent.
• Note (f): the rates include the remuneration payable for the day of rest in a period of seven days.
• Note (g): an employee who works on the weekly rest day is entitled to overtime at the rate prescribed in rule 25 of the Minimum Wages Rules, 1951 — the notification is under the Code, and cites the 1951 Rules for overtime.
• Note (h): male and female workers are paid the same rate for the same or similar work.
• If the index falls below the point at which the allowance was fixed, the notification says the allowance is not reduced.
• The copy held here is the departmental order, which asks the Superintendent of the Government Press, Doranda, to publish it in the forthcoming extraordinary issue of the Gazette and to supply 500 copies. The gazette issue carrying it is not part of the document.
• Jharkhand runs three wage streams in parallel on three different basic-rate dates: this one from 11 March 2024, the piece rates from 13 September 2024, and the contract labour rates from 28 June 2024.