(1) (i) The wage period with respect to any scheduled employment for which wages have been fixed shall not exceed one month and the wages of an employee in such employment shall be paid on a working day before the expiry of the seventh day after the last day of the wage period.
(ii) Where the employment of any employee is terminated by or on behalf of the employer, 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 employee shall be paid to him without deduction of any kind except those authorized by or under these rules.
Explanation. ---Every payment made by the employee to the employer or his agent shall, for the purposes of these rules, be deemed to be a deduction from wages.
(2) Deduction front the wages of an employee in a scheduled employment shall be one or more of the following kinds, namely,—
(i) tines
(ii) deductions for absence from duty ;
(iii) deductions for damage to or loss of goods expressly entrusted to the employee for custody, or for loss of money for which he is required to account, where such damage or loss is di rect ly attributable to his neglect or default ;
(iv) deduction for house accommodation supplied by the employer or the State Government or any au thori ty const itu ted by the State Government for providing housing accommodations ;
deductions for such amenities and services supplied by the employer as the Government may by general or specia l o rder authorize ;
Explanation --The words "amenities and services" in this clause do not include, the supply of tools and protectives required for the purposes of employment :
(vi) deductions for recovery of advances or for adjustment of overpayment of wages :
Provided that such advances do not exceed an amount equal to wages for two 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 ;
(vii) deductions of income-tax payable by the employee ;-
(viii) deductions required to be made by order of a court or other competent authority ;
(ix) deductions for subscriptions to and for repayment of advances from any provident fund to which the Provident Fund. Act, 1925, applies or any recognized provident fund as defined in Section 58-A of the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922, or any provident fund appioved in this behalf, by the 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 Corporat ion, establ ished under the Life Insurance Act, 1956 (13 of 1956) ;
(xi) deductions for recovery or adjustment of amount other than wages paid to the employee in error or in excess of what is due to him :
Provided that prior approval of the Inspector or any other Officer authorised by the State Government in .this behalf is obtained in writing before making this deduction unless the ..
employee gives his consent in writing to such deductions being made ;
(xii) deductions made with the written authorisation of the employee (which may he given once generally and not necessarily every time a deduction is made) for the purchase of securities of the Government of India or of any State Government or for being deposited in any Post Office Savings Bank in furtherance of any savings scheme of any such Government.
(3) Any person desiring to impose a fine on an employee or' to make a deduction for damage or loss caused by him, shall explain to him personally and 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 given him an opportunity to offer an explanation in the presence of another person. The amount of the said fine or deduction shall also be intimated to him.
(4) The amount of fine or deduction mentioned in sub-rule (3) shall be such as may be specified by the Government. All such deductions and all realisation thereof shall be recorded in a register maintained in Forms I, II and Iii, as the case may be. A return in Form III shall be submitted annua►i'y' by the employer.
(5) The amount of fine imposed wider sub-rule (3) shall be utilized for welfare work in the manner approved by the State Labour Commissioner.
(6) Nothing in this rule shall be deemed to affect the provisions of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936,