ENA State 2019-04-18 09:44:24 <p><strong>Bengaluru, Apr 18 (KNN)</strong> The High Court of Karnataka has upheld the minimum wages notifications issued by the labour department in 2016 and 2017, increasing the minimum wages in industries.</p> <p>The move came as a big relief for thousands of employees working in as many as 34 types of private industries in state.</p> <p>Justice Krishna S Dixit has directed the employers to pay the minimum wages, which remained unpaid till now due to a stay order by the court, to the eligible employees/workers within a period of eight weeks with 6% interest.</p> <p>However, the court quashed the directions to pay additional allowances like seniority allowance at the rate of 1% of the minimum wages for each completed year of service or otherwise, to the employees who have put in a service of ten or more years.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="500" id="mgiframe" src="//mg.mgid.com/mghtml/framehtml/c/k/n/knnindia.co.in.338951.html" width="100%"></iframe></p> <p>In addition, it quashed the notification directing the employers to continue to pay the current wages which are above the notified minimum wages.</p> 22495 https://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/state/ktaka-hc-upholds-minimum-wages-notification 2019-04-18 09:44:24 knnindia.co.in