(1) Minimum wages payable under this Act shall be paid in cash.

(2) Where it has been the custom to pay wages wholly or partly in kind, the appropriate Government being of the opinion that it is necessary in the circumstances of the case may, by notification in the Official Gazette, authorise the payment of minimum wages either wholly or partly in kind.

(3) If the appropriate Government is of the opinion that provision should be made for the supply of essential commodities at concession rates, the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, authorise the provision of such supplies at concession rates.

(4) The cash value of wages in kind and of concessions in respect of supplies of essential commodities at concession rates authorised under sub-sections (2) and (3) shall be estimated in the prescribed manner.

STATE AMENDMENT

Uttar Pradesh

In section 11 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely :-

(1) Every employer/owner of Industrial or other establishment shall make payment of wages to his employee through cheques or N.E.F.T, E.C.S or other banking solutions:

Provided that if the work of employed person is of temporary, casual or fixed term then on his written consent and on submission of a copy of his self-attested aadhar card, the employer can make cash payment of wages not more than rupees five thousand once in three months.

[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 11 of 2018, s. 2]