https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173712 A minimum wage notification for tea plantation labourers was construed as preserving the existing task-based workload rather than replacing it with an isolated time-rate. Reading the notification with the Government's contemporaneous conduct and the prior task structure, the Court treated the prescribed minimum wages as linked to the stipulated quantity of leaves to be plucked. Labourers were therefore entitled to the fixed basic wage for the specified task and to extra payment at the prevailing rate for work beyond that task. The concurrent findings on entitlement to extra wages were upheld, and no interference was made. en-us Fri, 21 Dec 1956 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:49:28 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173712 A minimum wage notification for tea plantation labourers was construed as preserving the existing task-based workload rather than replacing it with an isolated time-rate. Reading the notification with the Government's contemporaneous conduct and the prior task structure, the Court treated the prescribed minimum wages as linked to the stipulated quantity of leaves to be plucked. Labourers were therefore entitled to the fixed basic wage for the specified task and to extra payment at the prevailing rate for work beyond that task. The concurrent findings on entitlement to extra wages were upheld, and no interference was made. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 21 Dec 1956 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173712