PAYMENT OF WAGES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017

• Payment of wages (Amendment) Bill, 2017 received President’s assent on 15^th February, 2017 and replaced the Payment of Wages Ordinance, 2016 which was promulgated on December 28, 2016.

• Section 6 has been amended to permit the employer to pay an employee’s wages:
• in coin or currency notes; or
• by cheque; or
• By crediting them into his bank account.

• It also enables the appropriate Government to specify the industrial or other establishment, by notification in official gazette, which shall pay to every employed person the wages only by cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account.”

Section 6 of Payment of wages (Amendment) Act, 2017 reads as under:-

Section 6: Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or by

Crediting the wages in the bank account

“All wages shall be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or by

Crediting the wages in the bank account of the employee:

Provided that the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official

Gazette, specify the industrial or other establishment, the employer of which shall pay to every person employed in such industrial or other establishment, the wages only by cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account