Minimum pay

mum salary at ~18,000 will be the notional basis for the criteria hiking the floor wage,” an official of the labour ministry said.

According to the criteria, actual minimum wages must take into account a net intake of “2,700 calories per day per consumption unit” and “66 metres cloth per year per family”, apart from house rent (10% of minimum wages), fuel, household electricity, spending on children’s education, medical needs, and recreation. Expenditure on emergencies will constitute 25% of the minimum wages.

The floor wage will take into account “an equivalent of three adult consumption units”, including “food, clothing, housing and any other factors considered appropriate by the central government from time to time”, the draft states. The floor will be revised every five years.

“The criteria set in the draft rules under section 67 of the Code on Wages 2019, a law passed by Parliament this year, is in accord