Section 5. Payment of minimum rate of wages

CHAPTER II MINIMUM WAGES 5. Payment of minimum rate of wages.— No employer shall pay to any employee wages less than the minimum rate of wages notified by the appropriate Government. 5. The Code on Wages, 2017, on similar lines, was introduced and referred to the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour, which submitted its forty-third Report on 18th December, 2018. However, before the said Bill could be passed in the said House, it lapsed on dissolution of the Sixteenth Lok Sabha. Hence, the Code on Wages, 2019.