Kerala Motor Transport Workers' Payment of Fair Wages Act, 1971

No: 23 Dated: Aug, 03 1971

THE KERALA MOTOR TRANSPORT WORKERS PAYMENT OF FAIR WAGES ACT, 1971

(Act 23 of 1971)

    An Act to provide for payment of fair rates of wages for motor transport workers in the State of Kerala and for matters incidental thereto

    Preamble. - Whereas it is expedient to provide for payment of fair rates of wages for motor transport workers in the State of Kerala and for matters incidental thereto ;

Be it enacted in the Twenty Second Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Kerala Motor Transport Workers’ Payment of Fair Wages Act, 1971.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Kerala.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April, 1969.

2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -

(a) "employer" means in relation to any motor transport undertaking, the person who or the authority which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of the motor transport undertaking, and where the said affairs are entrusted to any other person whether called a manager, managing director, managing agent or by any other name, such other person ;

(b) "motor transport undertaking" means a motor transport undertaking including a private carrier engaged in carrying passengers or goods or both by road for hire or reward ;

(c) "motor transport worker" means a person who is employed in a motor transport undertaking directly or through an agency, whether for wages or not, to work in a professional capacity on a transport vehicle or to attend to duties in connection with the arrival, departure, loading or unloading of such transport vehicle and includes a driver, conductor, cleaner, station staff, line checking staff, booking clerk; cash clerk, depot clerk, time keeper, watchman, or attendant ;

(d) "fair wages" means the rate of wages payable to the motor transport workers specified in the Schedule to this Act or the agreed rate of wages whichever is higher.