Government reconstitutes Expert group for determining minimum wages and national-floor wages. Head- SP Mukherjee

The Ministry of Labour has reconstituted the Expert Group on Fixation of Minimum Wages and National Floor Wages.
The nine-member new committee will now be headed by the economist and statistician SP Mukherjee (emeritus professor at the University of Kolkata).
Earlier in June 2021, government had constituted this committee under the Chairmanship of Professor Ajit Mishra (director of the Institute of Economic Growth).
The new expert group has been constituted for a period of three years.
The reconstituted committee will to provide technical inputs and recommendations to the government on the national floor level minimum wages under the Code on Wages, 2019, which would help them in determination of minimum wages.
The expert group is expected to look into international best practices on wages and evolve a scientific criteria and methodology for fixation of wage in the country.