Minimum wages

The same notification also says

• The rates are per day and are inclusive of dearness allowance, but exclusive of any other concessions an employee enjoys. There is no separate allowance to add.
• They are effective from 11 July 2022 — the date the proposals were gazetted for objections — although the notification itself is dated 14 September 2022.
• There are no zones. One rate set covers the whole State and every scheduled employment; what changes the figure is the worker's category and the altitude at which the work is done.
• The notification classifies 151 job titles into the four categories — 39 unskilled, 54 semi-skilled, 50 skilled and 8 highly skilled. Every category ends with a catch-all for any other work of that nature, so the lists name examples rather than close the class.
• If a question arises about which category particular work falls into, it may be referred to the Labour Department, whose decision is final.
• A worker who works six consecutive days in a week without absence gets one paid holiday, on a Sunday or any other Haat day.
• No worker may be required to work more than nine hours in a day, with a break of one hour. Overtime is payable at twice the ordinary rate beyond eight hours in a day or forty-eight in a week — so the ninth hour is worked, and paid as overtime.
• It supersedes Notification No. 11/DL of 15 September 2017, published in Sikkim Government Gazette No. 440 of the same date.
• The notes to the notification are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8. There is no note 6, and nothing in the sense of them appears to be missing.