RAJYA SABHA
QUESTION NO 4604 ANSWERED ON 08.05.2013 AMENDMENT IN BONUS ACT
Amendment
in Bonus Act for waiving ceilings is not considered at this time:
Govt
latest reply in Rajya Sabha
The calculation ceiling
and eligibility limit has been revised from Rs. 2500/- to Rs. 3500/- per month
and Rs. 3500/- to Rs. 10,000/- p.m. respectively vide the Payment of Bonus
(Amendment) Act, 2007 notified on 13/12/2007 and made effective from 1st April,
2006. Keeping in view the large financial implications for both for the Public
and Private Sectors further amendment to the Payment of Bonus Act for waiving
both the ceilings is not considered feasible at this stage.:
Govt reply in Rajya Sabha see
details below:-
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND
EMPLOYMENT
RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-4604
ANSWERED ON-08.05.2013
Amendment
in Bonus Act
4604
. SHRI RAMACHANDRA KHUNTIA
(a)whether
it is a fact that at present skilled workers who
are really contributing to production and productivity are not getting bonus;
and
(b)whether
Government is planning to amend the Bonus Act and waive the ceiling in salary
and maximum bonus so as to make everybody in a production unit eligible to get
the bonus?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI KODIKUNNIL
SURESH)
(a): As per the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965,
any employee is entitled to get bonus provided he / she is considered as an
eligible employee. As per the Act, an “employee” means any person (other than
an apprentice) employed on a salary or wage not exceeding ten thousand rupees
per mensem in any industry to do any skilled or unskilled manual, supervisory,
managerial, administrative, technical or clerical work for hire or reward,
whether the terms of employment be express or implied.” Government has no
specific information of skilled
workers being denied bonus.
(b): The calculation ceiling and eligibility limit has been
revised from Rs. 2500/- to Rs. 3500/- per month and Rs. 3500/- to Rs. 10,000/-
p.m. respectively vide the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2007 notified on
13/12/2007 and made effective from 1st April, 2006. Keeping in view the large
financial implications for both for the Public and Private Sectors further
amendment to the Payment of Bonus Act for waiving both the ceilings is not
considered feasible at this stage.
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