4.6 Remuneration/Wages, Allowances and Their Protection

4.6.1 Minimum Remuneration/Basic Wage and Its Fixation The wage-floor machinery: the Minimum Remuneration Fixation Committee (the tripartite body — the government's constitution; the review's cycle (the two-year faces)); the committee's factors (the cost-of-living, the comparable-wages, the productivity, the enterprise's capacity); the declaration (the Gazette's notification — the floor's universality in the covered enterprises); the basic-wage-plus-allowance's structure (the dearness-and-living components). 4.6.2 Dearness Allowance The inflation's adjustment: the DA's mechanism (the cost-of-living's compensation — the wage's indexation's Nepali face); the adjustment's practice (the committee's-and-agreement's cycles). 4.6.3 Annual Increment of Remuneration (Grade) The seniority's reward: the grade-increment's automaticity (the annual scale-step — the service's progression); the increment's linkage (the performance's modern debates — the merit's introduction). 4.6.4 Protection of Remuneration/Wage, Allowances etc. and Remedy Thereof The wage's protection: the payment's duty (the monthly cycle; the in-cash rule — the kind- payment's restriction); the deductions' limits (the lawful-deduction list — the unions' dues, the court orders; the fines' discipline); the equal-remuneration (the same-work's gender-parity — the constitutional bar); the remedies (the labour office's complaint; the court's recovery — the wage- claim's summary faces; the CRO's clearance certificate — the job-change's gate). 4.6.5 Minimum Remuneration Fixation Committee and Its Power and Functions (4.6.1's depth): the committee's tripartite composition (the government-employers-workers); the data's collection (the surveys); the recommendation's submission; the revision's initiative (the periodic-or-demand-driven); the committee's…