The following are the privileges and benefits included in the
wages:
§ Free
accommodation
§ Maternity
benefit payable to women
delivering a child
§ Dearness
allowances
§ Overtime pay
§ Benefits in the
form of food or clothing
§ Value of any other concessions, benefits or privileges
capable of being estimated in money
§ Gratuity payable
to a workman on retirement
§ Bonus earned in
the date of accidents
Employer’s
obligations and rights towards employees:
The obligation and rights of employers and employees under the
workmen’s compensation act given below
Section 3: Employer's liability for
compensation.
If personal injury is caused to a workman by accident arising out
of and. in the course of his employment, his. Employer shall be liable to pay
compensation in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter: Provided that
the employer shall not be so liable-
(a) In respect of any injury which does not result in the total or
partial disablement of the workman for a period exceeding [three] days;
(b) In respect of any [injury, hot resulting in death [30] [or
permanent total disablement], caused by] an accident which is directly
attributable to
§ the workman having been at the time
thereof under the influence of drink or drugs,
or
§ the
wilful disobedience of the workman to an order expressly given, or to a rule
expressly framed, for the purpose of securing the safety of workmen,
or
§ the
wilful removal or disregard by the workman of any safety guard or other device
which he knew to have been provided for the purpose of securing the safety of
workmen,
Provided that if it is proved,-
· That a
workman whilst in the service of one or more employers in any employment
specified in Part C of Schedule III has contracted a disease specified therein
as an occupational disease peculiar to that employment during a continuous
period which is less than the period specified under this sub-section for that
employment, and Provided further that if it is proved that a workman who having
served under any employer in any employment specified in Part B of Schedule III
or who having served under one or more employers in any employment specified in
Part C of that Schedule, for a continuous period specified under this
subsection for that employment and he has after the cessation of such service
contracted any disease specified in the said Part B or the said Part C, as the
case may be, as an occupational disease peculiar to the employment and that
such disease arose out of the employment, the contracting of the disease shall
be deemed to be an injury by accident within the meaning of this section.]
· Save
as provided by [37] [sub-sections (2), (2A)] and (3), no compensation shall be
payable to a workman in respect of any disease unless the disease is [38] [***]
directly attributable to a specific injury by accident arising out of and in
the course of his employment.
· Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to
confer any right to compensation on a workman in respect of any injury if he
has instituted in a Civil Court a suit for damages in respect of the injury
against the employer or any other person; and no suit for damages shall be
maintainable by a workman in any Court of law in respect of any injury
· If he
has instituted a claim to compensation in respect of the injury before a
Commissioner; or
· If an
agreement has been come to between the workman and his employer providing for
the payment of compensation in respect of the injury in accordance with the
provisions of this Act.
Section 4: Amount
of compensation.
(a)
§ Subject to
the provisions of this Act, the amount of compensation shall be as follows,
namely:
§ where
death results from the injury an amount equal [fifty] per cent of the monthly
wages of the deceased workman multiplied by the relevant factor;
or
An amount of [39b] [eighty] thousand rupees,
whichever is more;
(b) Where permanent total dis- an amount equal to [sixty] per cent
ablement results from the in- of the monthly wages of the injured jury workman
multiplied by the relevant factor;
or
An amount of [ninety] thousand rupees,
whichever is more.
Explanation I: For the purposes
of clause (a) and clause (b), "relevant factor", in relation to a
workman means the factor specified in the second column of Schedule IV against
the entry in the first column of that Schedule specifying the number of years
which are the same as the completed years of the age of the workman on his last
birthday immediately preceding the date on which the compensation fell due;
Explanation II: Where the monthly
wages of a workman exceed [39e] [four] thousand rupees, his monthly wages for
the purposes of clause (a) and clause (b) shall be deemed to be [39e] [four]
thousand rupees only;
(c) Where permanent partial disablement results from the injury
(i) In the case of an injury specified in Part II of
Schedule I, such percentage of the compensation which would have been payable
in the case of permanent total disablement as is specified therein as being the
percentage of the loss of earning capacity caused by that injury, and
Explanation I:
Where more injuries than one are caused by the same accident, the
amount of compensation payable under this head shall be aggregated but not so
in any case as to exceed the amount which would have been payable if permanent
total disablement had resulted from the injuries;
Explanation II:
In assessing the loss of earning capacity for the purposes of
sub-clause
(ii) The qualified medical practitioner shall have due
regard to the percentages of loss of earning capacity in relation to different
injuries specified in Schedule I;
(d) Where temporary disablement, whether total or partial,
results from the injury a half monthly payment of the sum equivalent to
twenty-five per cent of monthly wages of the workman, to be paid in accordance
with. The provisions of sub-section (2).
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), while
fixing the amount of compensation payable to a workman in respect of an
accident occurred outside India, the Commissioner shall take into account the
amount of compensation, if any, awarded to such workman in accordance with the
law of the country in which the accident occurred and shall reduce the amount
fixed by him by the amount of compensation awarded to the workman in accordance
with the law of that country.
(2) The half-monthly payment referred to in clause (a) of
sub-section (1) shall be payable on the sixteenth day
(i) From the date of disablement where such
disablement lasts for a period of twenty-eight days or more,
or
(ii) after the expiry of a waiting period of three days from
the date of disablement where such disablement lasts for a period of less than
twenty-eight days; and thereafter half-monthly during the disablement or during
a period of five years, whichever period is shorter:
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