What are Arunachal Pradesh's rules under the Code on Wages, 2019?
Jurisdiction: Arunachal Pradesh state rules under the Code on Wages, 2019.
Arunachal Pradesh notified the Code on Wages (Arunachal Pradesh) Rules, 2022 on 19 January 2022, published in the Arunachal Pradesh Extraordinary Gazette (No. 35, Vol. XXIX) on 24 February 2022. The 30-page notification fixes the state's minimum wage methodology, working hours and rest day, wage deduction and advance-recovery limits, bonus set-on and set-off mechanics, and the registers, wage slips and compounding procedure employers must follow. This page synthesizes those obligations from the gazette text; the verbatim rule-by-rule text is on the linked /states page, and the source PDF is available for download below.
Key facts
- Parent code
- Code on Wages, 2019
- Jurisdiction
- Arunachal Pradesh (state rules)
- Notified
- 24 February 2022
- Gazette reference
- No. LAB (W)WC/47/2019, dated 19 January 2022, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Department of Labour and Employment, published in the Arunachal Pradesh Extraordinary Gazette No. 35, Vol. XXIX, 24 February 2022
- Source gazette length
- 30 pages
Key obligations
Scope, commencement and coverage
Source: Rule 1 and the notification's rule-making clause
The rules are titled the Code on Wages (Arunachal Pradesh) Rules, 2022, extend to the whole state, and supersede prior state wage instruments.
- These rules may be called the Code on Wages (Arunachal Pradesh) Rules, 2022, and extend to the whole of Arunachal Pradesh (rule 1(1) to (2)).
- They come into force from the date the Code on Wages, 2019 itself takes effect (rule 1(3)), not from the gazette publication date.
- The rules are made in supersession of the state's earlier minimum wages rules and the Arunachal Pradesh Payment of Wages Rules, 1988; the notification names a third superseded instrument but the parsed gazette text truncates that citation, so it is not reproduced here (see the source PDF for the complete list).
Minimum wages and working-hour norms
Source: Rules 3 to 10 (Chapter II)
Chapter II sets the methodology for fixing minimum wages and the state's working-hour, rest-day and wage-period norms.
- Minimum wages are fixed on a day basis for a standard working-class family of three adult consumption units, using a net intake of 2,700 calories per day per unit, 66 metres of cloth per year, and set percentage allocations for housing rent (10% of food and clothing spend), fuel and other items (20%), and education, medical and contingency costs (25%) (rule 3(1)).
- The state is divided into Area-I and Area-II for wage fixation, on the advice of a technical committee chaired by the Secretary (Labour and Employment) and including the Labour Commissioner and a Government of India employment nominee; the committee also categorizes occupations into unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled and highly skilled (rule 4).
- Dearness allowance is to be revised twice yearly, computed before 1 April and before 1 October each year (rule 5).
- The normal working day is 8 hours of work plus rest intervals totalling up to 1 hour, with the total spread-over capped at 12 hours in a day (rule 6).
- Employees are entitled to a weekly rest day, ordinarily Sunday, with substitution allowed but capped so no employee works more than 10 consecutive days without a rest day (rule 7).
- The wage period for minimum-rate purposes is the month (rule 10).
Payment of wages, permissible deductions and bonus
Source: Rules 11 to 27 (Chapters III and IV)
Chapters III and IV cap how much can be deducted or recovered from wages in a period and set out the bonus set-on/set-off computation.
- Where authorized deductions in a wage period would exceed 50% of an employee's wages, the excess is carried forward and recovered later, still capped at 50% of wages in any given month (rule 11).
- Before deducting for damage or loss, the employer must explain the loss to the employee in writing, give the employee a chance to respond, and intimate any deduction actually made within 15 days (rule 17).
- Recovery of advances against wages is capped at 50% of the employee's wages in any wage period (rule 19).
- Bonus set-on and set-off for the sixth and seventh accounting years is computed per the illustrative method in Schedule A (rules 21 to 22); gross profits are computed under Schedule B for banking companies and Schedule C for other establishments (rules 23 to 24), with further permitted deductions under Schedule D (rule 25).
- Surplus carried forward for set-on is capped at 20% of the total wages paid to employees in that accounting year (rule 26).
Registers, wage slips, dues and enforcement
Source: Rules 45 to 57 (Chapters VI to VIII)
Chapters VI to VIII cover undisbursed dues, the registers and wage slips every employer must keep, contractor liability, and how offences are inspected and compounded.
- Wages due to a deceased or untraceable employee, unpaid for 3 months, must be deposited with the state-appointed authority, which disburses to the nominee within 2 months of deposit (rule 45); wholly undisbursed dues are deposited within 15 days after the 6-month mark (rule 46), and amounts unclaimed after 7 years are dealt with as the State Government directs (rule 47).
- Every employer must maintain a register of fines and deductions in Form I and a general register in Form IV, electronically or otherwise, and must issue wage slips in Form V on or before payment of wages (rules 50 to 51).
- Where employees are engaged through a contractor, the principal employer must pay the contractor before the wage-payment date so employees are paid on time, and must pay minimum bonus directly if the contractor fails to (rules 54 to 55).
- An inspection scheme is formulated by the Labour Commissioner with State Government approval, specifying a minimum number of inspections per Inspector-cum-Facilitator and establishment (rule 56).
- An accused person may apply in Form VI to compound (settle) an offence for a sum equal to 50% of the maximum fine prescribed under the Code, before the officer notified under section 56(1) (rule 53).
Frequently asked questions
Official gazette PDF
No. LAB (W)WC/47/2019, dated 19 January 2022, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Department of Labour and Employment, published in the Arunachal Pradesh Extraordinary Gazette No. 35, Vol. XXIX, 24 February 2022