https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=313364 The Gujarat High Court held that the State's power to fix minimum wages for a scheduled employment is tested against the employment as a whole in the State, not a smaller segment, and the Government was not barred from issuing the notification merely because the petitioners disputed the workforce threshold. It further noted that special allowance linked to cost-of-living neutralisation may not exceed permissible limits, and that neutralisation above 100% in some low-paid categories was legally unsustainable. Even so, the Court treated writ relief as discretionary and refused to quash the beneficial notification, relying on the limited extent of illegality, passage of time, and lack of material failure of justice. en-us Fri, 14 Feb 1992 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:05:35 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=313364 The Gujarat High Court held that the State's power to fix minimum wages for a scheduled employment is tested against the employment as a whole in the State, not a smaller segment, and the Government was not barred from issuing the notification merely because the petitioners disputed the workforce threshold. It further noted that special allowance linked to cost-of-living neutralisation may not exceed permissible limits, and that neutralisation above 100% in some low-paid categories was legally unsustainable. Even so, the Court treated writ relief as discretionary and refused to quash the beneficial notification, relying on the limited extent of illegality, passage of time, and lack of material failure of justice. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 14 Feb 1992 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=313364