Compliance Requirements

1. Revised Minimum Wages – Daily-Waged Employment Categories

The notification prescribes revised minimum daily wage rates across four Scheduled Employment categories – Casual/Muster Roll Employees, Roads & Building Operations, Employment in Registered Factories Not Elsewhere Classified, and Public Motor Transport Employees – each further classified into Unskilled, Semi-Skilled, Skilled-II (Junior Grade), and Skilled-I (Senior Grade) categories of workers, as follows:

2. General Conditions Applicable to the Revised Rates

• Unskilled work means work involving simple operations with little or no skill or experience.
• Semi-Skilled work means work involving some degree of skill or competence acquired through experience, performed under the supervision and guidance of skilled employees, and includes unskilled supervisory work.
• Skilled–II (Junior Grade) means work involving skill or competence acquired through experience on the job or through training as an apprentice at a technical or vocational institute, and calling for initiative and judgment.
• Skilled–I (Senior Grade) means work requiring great skill acquired through experience.
• Working hours are normally 8 hours per day for technical work; workers engaged in clerical, peon, and similar roles follow the prescribed office hours of the employing Office/Department.
• Workers other than clerical staff and peons, working continuously for 6 days a week, are entitled to the following paid holidays in addition to the weekly Sunday benefit:
• New Year – January 1
• Missionary Day – January 11
• Republic Day – January 26
• Chapchar Kut – on the day it falls
• Good Friday – on the day it falls
• May Day – May 1
• YMA Day – June 15
• Remna Ni – June 30
• Independence Day – August 15
• Mahatma Gandhi Birthday – October 2
• Christmas Day – December 25
• Women and disabled workers are entitled to the same rates as payable to male and abled workers.
• Where the existing wage rate payable to an employee under a contract or agreement, or otherwise, is higher than the rate notified herein, the higher rate shall be treated as the applicable minimum rate of wages for that employee.
• The notification is applicable to all Government Departments, Semi-Government Organisations, and Public and Private Undertakings within the State of Mizoram.