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No. 1991, CUTTACK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2018/ KARTIKA 8, 1940
LABOUR & ESI DEPARTMENT
NOTIFICATION
The 30th October, 2018
S.R.O No. 431/2018 – Whereas Certain Proposals to revise the minimum rate of wages payable to certain categories of employees employed in 89 scheduled employment were published as required under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948) in the Extraordinary issue No. 1362 of the Odisha Gazette, dated the 3rd August, 2018 bearing SRO No. 326 under the notification of the Government of Odisha in the Labour and Employees State Insurance Department No.5564 LL-I-(III) 56/18/LESI, dated the 3rd August, 2018 inviting objections and suggestions from all persons likely to be affected thereby within a period of two months from the date of publication of the said notification in the Odisha Gazette;
And whereas, the Advisory Board appointed under section 7 of the said Act, has been consulted and the representations containing objections and suggestions received within the specified period of two months in respect of the said proposal have been duly considered by the State Government;
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause(b) of sub-section (1) of section 3 readwith section 4 and sub-section (2) of section 5 of the said Act and in supersession of all previous notifications issued in this regard, the State Government do hereby revise the minimum rates of wages payable to Unskilled, Semiskilled, Skilled, Highly Skilled categories of employees employed in 88 employments as mentioned in the Schedule to this notification in the whole State of Odisha to Rs.
280.00, Rs.320.00, Rs.370.00 and Rs. 430.00 per day respectively, with effect from the date of publication of this notification in the Odisha Gazette. The revised minimum rates of wages shall consist of the rates of wages as set out in Column (4) of the Schedule to this notification and payable to the categories of employees as mentioned in Column (3) thereof. In addition to the said rates of wages, Variable Dearness Allowance (VDA) as admissible shall be declared at half-yearly interval i.e. on 1st April and 1st October of the year, @ Rs. 0.90 paise per point rise in All India Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers(base 2001-100)as may be notified by the Labour Commissioner, Odisha.
2| Sl. No. | Name of the Employment | Categories of Employees | Revised minimum rates of wages per day |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| 1. | Agriculture | Unskilled Semi-skilled Skilled Highly skilled | Rs. 280.00 Rs. 320.00 Rs. 370.00 Rs. 430 .00 |
| 2. | Agarbati and Candle making Worker's Establishments | ||
| 3. | Automobile servicing, repairing garages and workshops | ||
| 4. | Ayurvedic and Unani Pharmacy | ||
| 5. | Bakeries and Confectionaries including Biscuit making | ||
| 6. | Bamboo Forest Establishment | ||
| 7. | Brass and Bell Metal Industry | ||
| 8. | Carpet Weaving Industry | ||
| 9. | Cashew processing establishments | ||
| 10. | Cement pipe making and allied products industry | ||
| 11. | Ceramic and Pottery Industry | ||
| 12. | Chemical Industry | ||
| 13. | Cinema Industry and Film Production | ||
| 14. | Clay Pottery | ||
| 15. | Coir Industry | ||
| 16. | Collection of Sal Seeds | ||
| 17. | Construction or maintenance of Dams, Embankments, Irrigation Projects and sinking of wells and tanks. | ||
| 18. | Construction or maintenance of roads or in building operations | ||
| 19. | Contingent and Casual Employees in Govt. and other establishments, Courier and Cargo Services | ||
| 20. | Cotton Ginning and Pressing Industry | ||
| 21. | Dispensary of Medical Practitioner in any establishment of medical consultant or in any Chemical or Pathological Laboratory, Private Nursing Homes, Private Medical College Hospitals, Super Specialty Hospitals, clinic, laboratory etc. | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| 22. | Distilleries | Unskilled Semi-skilled Skilled Highly skilled | Rs. 280.00 Rs. 320.00 Rs. 370.00 Rs. 430 .00 |
| 23. | Domestic Workers (shall be calculated as per hours of work) | ||
| 24. | Electricity transmission, generation and distribution | ||
| 25. | Employment in NGO & Voluntary Social Organization | ||
| 26. | Employment in laying of underground Cables, Electric lines, Water supply lines and under Cable Operators. | ||
| 27. | Finishing Dying of yarn and fabrics, painting, knitting and embroidery | ||
| 28. | Fisheries and Sea food Industry | ||
| 29. | Forest produce such as Genduli gum, Mahua making of coal and resin. | ||
| 30. | Foundry Industry with or without attached machine shop | ||
| 31. | Glass Industries | ||
| 32. | Gold and Silver Ornaments and articles of artistic design | ||
| 33. | Graphite Industry including beneficiation | ||
| 34. | Handloom and Hosiery | ||
| 35. | Hotels, Eating Houses and Restaurants | ||
| 36. | Ice Factory and Cold Storage | ||
| 37. | Jute Industry and Jute Twine Industry | ||
| 38. | Kendu Leaf Collection | ||
| 39. | Khadi Village Industries including manufacture of Khandasari and other products | ||
| 40. | Laundry including dry-washing | ||
| 41. | Leather Industry | ||
| 42. | Liquefied Petroleum Gas manufacture and distribution | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| 43. | Local Authority | Unskilled Semi-skilled Skilled Highly skilled | Rs. 280.00 Rs. 320.00 Rs. 370.00 Rs. 430 .00 |
| 44. | Manufacture of brush and brooms | ||
| 45. | Manufacture of Coke and Burning Coals | ||
| 46. | Manufacture of Cold drinks, Soda and other allied products | ||
| 47. | Manufacture of Electrical Bulbs and all allied electrical equipments | ||
| 48. | Manufacture of matches, fireworks and explosives | ||
| 49. | Manufacture of nails and pines | ||
| 50. | Manufacture of paints and varnishes | ||
| 51. | Manufacture of plastic products including toys | ||
| 52. | Manufacture of Radio by assembling with parts | ||
| 53. | Manufacture of ropes | ||
| 54. | Manufacture of Utensils including Aluminum and Hindaliem products | ||
| 55. | Metal Industry(except the cottage and village scale units) | ||
| 56. | Major or Minor Engineering Industry including Sponge, Secondary Steel, Rolling Mills, Ferro Alloys, Metal Industries(employment less than 50 persons) | ||
| 57. | Motor body building | ||
| 58. | Non-teaching staff of all private Educational Institutions including ITI & Training Institute Coaching Centre. | ||
| 59. | Oil Mill | ||
| 60. | Paper and Cardboard Industry | ||
| 61. | Petrol and Diesel Oil pumps | ||
| 62. | Pharmaceutical Industry | ||
| 63. | Power loom Industry | ||
| 64. | Printing Press, DTP centre and offset printing press | ||
| 65. | Private Road Transport | ||
| 66. | Private Security Agencies and Private Security Services | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| 67. | Public Health Engineering | Unskilled Semi-skilled Skilled Highly skilled | Rs. 280.00 Rs. 320.00 Rs. 370.00 Rs. 430 .00 |
| 68. | Public Motor Transport | ||
| 69. | Readymade Garments Industries including Mechanized Trade of Readymade Garment Industry | ||
| 70. | Refractory Industry | ||
| 71. | Regulated markets, Marketing Societies,Co-operative Societies and Banks. | ||
| 72. | Rice Mill, Flour Mill or Dal Mill, Chuda mill and Masala Mill | ||
| 73. | Rubber and Rubber Products Industry | ||
| 74. | Salt Pans | ||
| 75. | Saw Mills | ||
| 76. | Shops, Commercial Establishments, saloon, beauty parlour, Spa, massaging centre, Xerox shop, STD booth, tent house, newspaper hawkers and newspaper establishments. | ||
| 77. | Siali leaf pluckers & Sal leaf pluckers | ||
| 78. | Soap and Detergent Manufactory | ||
| 79. | Social Forestry | ||
| 80. | Spinning Mills | ||
| 81. | Stone breaking or Stone crushing | ||
| 82. | Tamarind collection | ||
| 83. | Tile and Brick Making | ||
| 84. | Timber Trading (excluding felling and sawing) | ||
| 85. | Timber Trading (including felling and sawing) | ||
| 86. | Tobacco (including Bidi making) Manufactory | ||
| 87. | Trunks, Suitcase and Bucket manufactory | ||
| 88. | Wood works and furniture making industries | ||
| **89. Minor Ports |
**The 89th schedule i.e. Minor Ports will be included from the date of Final Notification w.r.t. SRO No. 330/2018 dated 03.08.18 of Labour and Employees State Insurance Department in the Odisha Gazette.
6Explanation:— for the purpose of this notification–
1. The minimum rates of wages are all inclusive rates including the basic rates, the cost of living allowances and the cash value of the concessional supply if any of essential commodities.
2. The daily minimum rates of wages shall be inclusive of wages payable for the weekly day of rest.
3. The minimum rates of wages are applicable to employees employed by contractors also.
4. The minimum rates of wages for disabled persons shall be same as payable to the workers of the appropriate category.
5. There shall not be any discrimination between male and female workers in the matters of payment of minimum wages in any category of employment.
6. (a) "Unskilled" work means work which involves simple operation requiring little or no skill or experience on the job.
(b) "Semi-skilled" work means work which involves some degree of skill or competence acquired through experience on the job and which is capable of being performed under the supervision or guidance of a skilled employee and includes un-skilled supervisory work.
(c) "Skilled" work means work which involves skill or competence acquired through experience on the job or through training as an apprentice or in a technical or vocational institute and the performance of which calls for initiative and judgment; and
(d) "Highly Skilled" work means work which calls for a high degree of performance and full competence in the performance of certain tasks, acquired through intensive technical or professional training or practices, work experience for long years and also required for workers to assure full responsibility for the judgment or decisions involved in the execution of these tasks.
7. An adult employee shall work for 08 (eight) hours per day excluding half an hour of rest.
(No. 7312 LL-I-III-56/18/LESI.)
By Order of the Governor
ANU GARG
Principal Secretary to Government
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