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Government on Monday introduced a bill in Lok Sabha that seeks
to enhance pay eligibility limit of an employee for bonus to Rs 21,000 per
month, from Rs 10,000, to make more workers eligible for the benefit. The
Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill, 2015 also seeks to enhance the monthly bonus
calculation ceiling to Rs 7,000 per month from existing Rs 3,500. It is
expected to increase the quantum of bonus substantially.
The amendment bill will be made effective from April 1, 2015.
The bill will amend, the Payment of Bonus Act 1965, which is applicable to
every factory and other establishment in which 20 or more persons are employed
on any day during an accounting year. The bill also provides for a new proviso
in Section 12 which empowers the central government to vary the basis of
computing bonus.
At present, under Section 12, where the salary or wage of an
employee exceeds Rs 3,500 per month, the minimum or maximum bonus payable to
employees are calculated as if his salary or wage were Rs 3,500 per month. The
last amendment to both the eligibility limit and the calculation ceilings under
the said Act was carried out in 2007 and was made effective from April 1, 2006.
The bill it provides that if (new) calculation ceiling is
adopted by the Government of India, the additional approximate expenditure for
payment of ad hoc bonus to the employees of the establishments under Central
Government and employees belonging to Railways and Posts (Productivity Linked
Bonus) would involve to the extent of Rs 3,128 crore.
The proposed amendments in the Act to increase
wage ceiling and bonus calculation ceiling were one of assurances given by the
Centre after 10 central trade unions went on one-day strike on September 2. The government had hinted at meeting
workers’ aspirations on nine out of 12 demands submitted by the unions.
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