Last Change:
04/30/2025
West Pakistan Minimum Wages Rules, 1962
Year: 1962
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Work & Workplace rights
Description
Rules framed by Government of West Pakistan in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17 of the Minimum Wages Ordinance, 1961 (XXXIX of 1961).
Selected provisions
In fixing minimum rates of wages, the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value shall be applied.
Government shall take all appropriate means of ensuring that the minimum rates of wages fixed under the Ordinance shall be made known to all employers and workers concerned.
(2) Government may, whenever it considers appropriate, require all employers for whose workers minimum rate of wages have been fixed under the Ordinance, to display in prominent places in the factory, workshop or other specified place, notice in Urdu, English and any other language specified in the order, giving the minimum rates of wages fixed.
(3) In respect of home or out-workers the notices shall be displayed in such factory, workshop or place as may be used for giving out-work to them.
(1) Where the Board proposes to recommend minimum rates of wages it shall publish the proposed recommendations in the Official Gazette for inviting objections and suggestions thereto from persons likely to be affected thereby within fourteen days from the date of publication.
(2) The Board may, after considering any objection and suggestion made in accordance with sub-rule (1) make such amendments in the original proposals as may seem desirable, or may uphold its original proposals and make recommendations accordingly, to Government.