Payment of Wages Act, 1936
3.
Responsibility for payment of wages
Every
employer shall be responsible for the payment to persons employed by him of all
wages required to be paid under this Act:
Provided
that in the case of persons employed
(otherwise than by a contractor) -
(a)
in factories if a person has been named as the manager of the factory under
clause (f) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Factories Act 1948 (63 of
1948);
(b)
in industrial or other establishments if there is a person responsible to the
employer for the supervision and control of the industrial or other
establishments;
(c)
upon railways (otherwise than in factories) if the employer is the railway
administration and the railway administration has nominated a person in this
behalf for the local area concerned.
The
person so named the person so responsible to the employer or the person so
nominated as the case may be shall also be responsible for such payment.