3 of wages and deductions permissible from yvzges,-(fl(l) The wage period with respect to any. scheduled employment for which wages are liable to be fixed shall not exceed one month, and the wages of an employee employed- g &ty ;
(a) in any such employment in which an employer has employed less than one Fhousand persons, shall be paid before the expiry-of the seventh day, and
(b) in any other case shall be paid before the expiry of the tenth day after the : |§St day of the wage period in respect of which the wages are payable:
Provided phat, in the case of persons, employed-as Saldars or Salkaries in the employment in agriculture, the wage period may be one year.
(ii) Where the employment of any person is terminated by or on behalf of the emplpyer, the 'wages earned by him shall be paid before the expiry of the second working day after the day on which his employment is terminated. -
(iii) The wages of an employed person shall be paid to him without deduction of any kind except those authorised by or under these rules.
Explanation.-Every payment made by the employed person to the employer or his agent shall, for the purpose of these rules, be deemed to be a deduction from wages. L
(2) Deduction from the. wages of a person employed in a scheduled employment shall be of one or more of the following kinds, namely.-
(i) fines in respect of such act and omissions on the part of an employed person as may be specified by the State Government by general or special order in this behalf; .
(ii) deduction for absence from duty;
(ii)y deductions for damage to or loss of ‘goods expressly entrusted to the employed person for custody or for loss of money for which he is required to account, where such damage or loss is directly attributable to his neglect or default;
(iv) deductions for house accommodation supplied by the employer or the State Government or the Maharashtra Housing Board constituted under the Bombay Housing Board Act1948 or the Vidarbha Housing Board constituted- under the Madhya Pradesh Housing Board Act, 1950 or such other agency as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct; y :
(v) deductions for such amenities and services supplied by the .employer as the State Government may, be general or special order, authorise; ;
. ;Del, by MW, (Amendment) Rules. 1975.
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" (vi) deductions for recovery of advances or for adjustment of over payment o wages: )
Provided that such advances do not exceed an amount equal tt?"wages for twg calendar months of the employee and, in no case, shall the monthly instalment of deduction exceed one-fourth of the wages earned in that month;
(vif) deduction of income-tax payable by the employee; L
(viil) deductions required to be made by order of a Court or other competen authority; : i
(ix) deductions for subscriptions to, and for payment of advances from an provident fund to which the Provident Funds Act, 1952, applies or any recognised provident fund as defined:in section 2(38) of the Income-ta Act, 1961 or any provident fund approved in this behalf by the State Government during the continuance of such approval; ¢
(x) deductions for payment to co-operative societies or deductions made with the written authorisation of the‘person employed, for payment of any premium on his life insurance policy to the Life Insurance Corporation of India established under the Life Insurance Act, 1956 (31 of 1956); ;
(xi)-deductions not exceeding half the wages for a period not exceeding four - months during which an employee is suspended from work in accordance with any rule of service or starding order framed under any law, or under a _seftlement or award which is legally binding on" him, governing such suspension: g
Provided that whereunder the conditions of service of an employee under a local authority provisions in respect of subsistence allowance during suspension are made and such provisions are similar to those contained in the Bombay Civil - Services Rules, deductions from the wages of an employee shall not exceed an - amount equal to the difference between the full wages payable to such employee and the. subsistence allowance payable to him under the conditions of service aforesaid: i :
Provided further that if an employee is suspendéd from work as a punishment in . accordance with any rule of service or standing order framed under any law, or under a’ settlement or award, governing such suspension, deduction during the period for which he is suspended may be equal to the amount of the full wages payable to such employee;
(ii). deductions .or recovery or an adjustment of amounts other than wages, paid by the employer to the employed person in error or in excess of what is due to him:
Provided that, the prior approval of the Inspector or any other officer authorised by the State Government in this behalf is obtained in writing before making the deductions, unless the employee gives his consent in writing to such deductions:
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(xiv) deductions made with the written authorisation of the erfiployee himself or of the President or Secretary of the registered trade union of which the employee is a member, for contribution to the National Defence Fund or to any other Fund approved by the Government of India for the purpose of natgonall defence or for any purpose as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify. .
'[(xv) deductions made under section 6BB of the Bombay Labour Welfare Fund - Act, 1953. o % : : ?
(3) Any person desiring to impose a fine on an employed person or to make a deduction for damage or loss caused by. him shall intimate him also in writing the act or omission or the damage or loss, in respect of which the fine or deduction is proposed to be. imposed or made; and give him an opportunity to offer any explanation in the presence of another person. The amount of the said fine or deduction shall also be intimated to him. 7
(4) The -amount of fine or deduction mentioned in sub-rule (3) or deduction for absence from duty-shall be such as may be specified by the State Government.
(5). The amount of fine imposed under sub-rule (3) shall be utilised only for such purposes beneficial to the employees as are approved by the State Government. -
(6) Nothing in this rule shall be deemed to affect the provisions of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936. i 22 e L