Introduction The Code on Wages, 2019 subsumes the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 which is the existing enactment regulating and ensuring that workers have a basic standard of life secured through wages that meet their needs. It divides workers into different classes of work known as scheduled employments under the Act and provided for employment-specific minimum wages. The procedure for determining the rate of minimum wage is based on a cost-of-living index number. Minimum wages included…