Salary payment day
When wages must hit the account.
Not yet verified against an official source
Delhi Shops and Establishments Act, 1954
- When wages are paid
- On a working day, before the seventh day after the last day of the wage periodThis comes from the Labour Department's own copy of the Act at labour.delhi.gov.in. That copy is an annotated edition rather than a bare Act: each section is followed by editorial 'Comments' with case notes and the editor's glosses, and some of those glosses go further than the section above them — one, for instance, describes an 11 p.m. closing as optional, which section 16 does not say. Only the statutory text is used on this page.Section 19(3)
- Wage period
- Fixed by the employer, and never longer than one monthSection 19(1) and (2)
- On termination
- Before the end of the second working day after the employment endsSection 19(5)
- Form of payment
- All wages are paid in cashSection 19(4)
- Deductions
- Only the kinds section 20 lists — fines, absence from duty, damage or loss of entrusted goods, house accommodation, and authorised amenities and services. Any payment by the employee to the employer counts as a deductionSection 20(1) and (2)
- Pay wages
- By the 7th of the following monthCode on Wages, 2019 s.17