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LKA-1927-R-37393
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Title_of_text
Minimum Wages (Indian Labour) Ordinance (No. 27 of 1927).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Sri Lanka
Subjects (Classification)
Migrant workers
Adopted on (Date of text)
1927-12-09
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Regulation, Decree, Ordinance
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
This Act sets up a minimum wage-system for Indian estate labourers, inter alia, by the establishment of local Estate Wages Boards composed of both employers and labourers. The minimum wage-rates fixed by the local Boards are subjected to the approval of the national Board of Indian Immigrant Labour. Failures to act by the local Boards, entitles the national Board to intervene and fix minimum wage-rates. The fixed rates are to be published both in Sinhala and Tamil. Failures to pay minimum rates are criminally sanctioned. Prohibits children under the age of ten to work.
Related Text region
Related text(s)
1889-10-31 (LKA-1889-R-37390)
Estate Labour (Indian) Ordinance (No. 13 of 1889).
Related text(s)
1889-10-31 (LKA-1889-R-37390)
Estate Labour (Indian) Ordinance (No. 13 of 1889).
Monograph region
Monograph title
Labour Code of Sri Lanka
Author
Labour Legislation (in force on 31 December 2002)
Publisher
Ministry of Employment and Labour
Place of publication
Colombo
Country
Sri Lanka
Date
2004
Page range
pp. 567-570
Monograph title
Labour Code of Sri Lanka - Consolidated and Updated to 31st December 2009
Author
Ministry of Labour Relations and Productivity Promotion
Country
Sri Lanka
Date
2010
Page range
pp. 624-628