Code on Wages provisions commence to enable Central Advisory Board functions and certain Minimum Wages Act interactions.
The Central Government has appointed the notification date as the effective date for selected provisions of the Code on Wages, 2019 that activate the Central Advisory Board (specified subsections of section 42 and clauses of section 67) and for section 69 insofar as it relates to sections 7 and 9 (as to the Central Government) and section 8 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.

Code on Wages rules set minimum and floor wage frameworks, work hours, rest day, payment and deduction procedures.
Draft rules under the Code on Wages set central procedures for fixing minimum wages using specified consumption and expenditure norms, require geographical and skill categorisation for wage fixation, and mandate periodic revision of dearness allowance and floor wage. They prescribe an eight-hour normal working day, limits on spread-over and weekly rest-day rules (including substitution and overtime pay), furnish forms and registers for wage payment and deductions, regulate advances, fines and recovery (with a fifty percent monthly cap), detail bonus computation and carry-forward mechanisms, and define Board constitution, enforcement, inspection and dispute/penalty procedures.