NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has said that the Delhi high court’s decision to quash his government’s notification on revision of minimum wages would put “huge financial stress on labourers”.Expressing his views on Twitter, Kejriwal said on Sunday: “Large number of daily wage earners in Delhi started getting increased wages of Rs 13,500 per month instead of Rs 9,500 for more than a year. With HC judgment, suddenly their wages will be reduced. They will be put to huge financial stress. A huge setback for them (sic).” HC on Saturday set aside the decision of the AAP government to revise the minimum wage for all classes and held that the Delhi government’s notification of March 2017 on the matter was unconstitutional.In the wake of the HC ruling, some employers, Kejriwal claimed, were planning to recover the increased wages that they had paid for one year. He added: “If that starts happening, it will bring untold miseries to the poor.”Meanwhile, the government is taking legal advice on the issue. Labour minister Gopal Rai said the government “disagrees with the HC verdict and views with extreme disappointment the erroneous conclusion arrived at by the court, after having heard the matter for almost a year and a half, and after having kept the verdict reserved for many months”.The minister has convened a meeting of the labour department on Monday to decide the future course of action. “The implementation of higher wages for workers has already been delayed by many years due to various reasons, including needless objections by the previous LG and, later, by the HC direction to not take any coercive action against those not paying minimum wages to workers,” the statement said.Rai wondered how the decision could be termed “hurried” when the decision to recommend revised higher wages for workers was taken after at least seven meetings spanning over six months.

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