Saravanan: E-Wages system to monitor salary payments in real-time

The Human Resources Ministry will develop an e-Wages system soon to monitor the payment of monthly salaries to workers in real-time.

Minister M Saravanan (above) said this was to ensure that salary payments would be made before the seventh day of each month as stipulated under the Employment Act 1955.

“At present, there is no mechanism within the job market to monitor the...