Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
10. Payment of minimum bonus
Subject to the other provisions of this Act, every employer shall
be bound to pay to every employee in respect of the accounting year commencing
on any day in the year 1979 and in respect of every subsequent accounting year,
a minimum bonus which shall be 8.33 per cent of the salary or wages earned by
the employee during the accounting year or one hundred rupees, whichever is
higher, whether or not the employer has any allocable surplus in the accounting
year:
PROVIDED that where an employee has not completed
fifteen years of age at the beginning of the accounting year, the provisions of
this section shall have effect in relation to such employee as if for the words
"one hundred rupees" the words "sixty rupees" were
substituted.]