Living WagesCompensation Management

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Manu Melwin JoyAssistant Professor

Ilahia School of Management Studies

Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

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Living Wages• Living wages has been

defined differently by different people in different countries. The best definition is given by Justice Higgins which reads "Living wage is a wage sufficient to ensure the workman food, shelter, clothing, frugal comfort, provision for evil days etc. as regard for the skill of an artisan, if he is one".

Living Wages• According to Fair Wages

Committee Report: "The living wage should enable the male earner to provide himself and his family not merely the basic essentials of food, clothing and shelter but a measure of frugal comfort including education for the children, protection against ill-health, requirement of essential social needs and measures of insurance against old age."

Living Wages• Thus living wages means

the provision for the bare necessities plus certain amenities considered necessary for the wellbeing of the workers in terms of his social status.

Living Wages• Article 43 of the Constitution of

India states that the state shall endeavor to secure by suitable legislation or economic organisation or in any other way to all workers a living wage, conditions of work ensuring a decent standard of life and full enjoyment of pleasure and social and cultural opportunities. Thus, Government of India has adopted as one of the directives of the principle of slate policy to ensure living wages.