https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287648 The power under the Minimum Wages Act to fix or revise minimum rates of wages was confined to remuneration and did not extend to altering other contractual terms of employment. Clauses 1 and 2 of the notification, which fixed minimum wages, were valid. Clauses 3 to 7, however, went beyond wage fixation by creating machinery for disputes over rejected chhat bidis, their retention, and payment, and were therefore ultra vires. The doctrine of implied powers could not save them because the Act already provided enforcement remedies for minimum wage claims and did not authorise a separate adjudicatory scheme. en-us Wed, 15 Nov 1961 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 09:26:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287648 The power under the Minimum Wages Act to fix or revise minimum rates of wages was confined to remuneration and did not extend to altering other contractual terms of employment. Clauses 1 and 2 of the notification, which fixed minimum wages, were valid. Clauses 3 to 7, however, went beyond wage fixation by creating machinery for disputes over rejected chhat bidis, their retention, and payment, and were therefore ultra vires. The doctrine of implied powers could not save them because the Act already provided enforcement remedies for minimum wage claims and did not authorise a separate adjudicatory scheme. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 15 Nov 1961 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287648