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The Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal that will give all employees the right to a minimum wage. The Code on Wages Bill, which will ensure universal minimum wage for all industries and workers, has already been approved by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley-led inter-ministerial panel on labour.
The Code on Wages Bill also seeks to empower the Centre to set a minimum wage across sectors, and states will have to adhere to that. However, states will be able to provide a higher minimum wage than that fixed by the central government as labour is in the concurrent list.
The proposed legislation is
