Employee Relations Management

Chapter Fifteen

Wage Determination, Wage Administration and Employee Relations

Our Constitution accepts the responsibility of the State to create an economic order in which every citizen finds employment and receives a “fair wage”. One of the earliest decisions taken by the government of free India was to set up a committee to define fair wage, and indicate the economic and legal means for ensuring a fair wage to every employed citizen. An examination of this question established the integral relation between quantum of the fair wage and the capacity to pay the wage, and the need to balance and constantly upgrade both to ensure a fair standard of life, social security and social justice.Report of the Second National Commission on Labour, Chapter ...