Minimum Wages Act, 1948
18. Maintenance of registers and records
(1) Every employer shall maintain such
registers and records giving such particulars of employees employed by him the
work performed by them the wages paid to them the receipts given by them and
such other particulars and in such form as may be prescribed.
(2) Every employer shall keep exhibited in
such manner as may be prescribed in the factory workshop or place where the employees
in the scheduled employment may be employed or in the case of out-workers in
such factory workshop or place as may be used for giving out work to them
notices in the prescribed form containing prescribed particulars.
(3) The appropriate government may by rules
made under this Act provide for the issue of wage books or wage slips to
employees employed in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum
rates of wages have been fixed and prescribed to manner in which entries shall
be made and authenticated in such wage books or wage slips by the employer or
his agent.