The Code on Wages, 2019 amalgamate, simplify and rationalize the relevant provisions of the following four Central Labour enactments relating to wages, namely: The Payment Wages Act, 1936 The Minimum Wages Act, 1948 The

Under Section 14 of the Code on Wages, 2019 , where an employee whose minimum rate of wages has been fixed under the Code by the hour, by the day or by such a longer wage-period as may be prescribed, works on any day in excess of the number of hours constituting a normal working day, the employer shall pay him for every hour or for part of an hour so worked in excess, at the overtime rate which shall not be less than twice the normal rate of wages.