Summary:
How do garment workers survive on such low wages? For garments, a draft Minimum Wage notification in February 2018 offered workers in Bangalore ?11,587 per month. The Supreme Court has clearly held that competitiveness is not a ground to refuse Minimum Wage payment. more-inIn Karnataka, the minimum wage in the garment sector is only around ?8,000 per month. However, the spontaneous Provident Fund (PF) strike by garment workers in April 2016, triggered by the announcement of arbitrary changes to the PF regime, was a clear indication of the stresses contained in the sector..