Whether the
provident fund contributions under the Employees’ Provident Funds and
Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, (hereinafter referred as the ‘Act , 1952’
), are liable to be remitted to the Fund on not less than the minimum wages,
prescribed under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, (hereinafter referred as the Act
of 1948)?
The Division bench
uphold the decision of the single judge and pronounced through a reasoned order
categorically holding that there was no compulsion to hold that the definition
of ‘basic wages’ should be equated to the definition of ‘minimum wages’ under the
Minimum Wages Act, 1948. Find here Full Document and Courts judgments’.