Which of the following labour related Acts have been amalgamated into the Code on Wages, 2019'? I. Minimum Wages Act II. Payment of Bonus Act III. The Contract Labour Act IV. Equal Remuneration Act Select the correct answer using the codes given below. Codes :

The correct answer is C. The Code on Wages, 2019 subsumed four older central laws: the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, and the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976. So statements I, II and IV are right.

Statement III is wrong. The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 was not merged into the Wages Code. It went into the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020. Any option containing III, which means A, B and D, can be eliminated once you know this.

Core concept: the consolidation of 29 central labour laws into four codes, namely Wages, Industrial Relations, Social Security, and OSH. For Mains, link it to the universal statutory minimum wage and the single definition of 'wages' in the Code.

Trap: aspirants remember Bonus and Minimum Wages but guess the Contract Labour Act because it sounds like a wage law. Memorise the four Acts by name.