he the1948 Act, for agricultural labourers, shall be the guiding factor, Thus, the Parliament is thoroughly conscious that in terms of Section 3 of the 1948 Act, which Enactment has been made for providing minimum rates of wages in certain employments, the State shall fix the minimum rates of wages payable to the employees employed in an employment specified either in Part-I or Part-II of the Schedule, A very expansive definition has been accorded to the term “wages” under Section 2(h) of the 1948 Act. Section 4 of the 1948 Act, has also taken care to specify as to what are the components that constitute the minimum rate of wages. Under Section 12 of the Minimum Wages ‘Act, when once a notification, in respect of any of the scheduled employment, has been issued, fixing the minimum rate of wages, the employer shall_pay to eve employee engaged in such a scheduled employment under him, wages at a rate not less than the minimum rate of wages fixed by such notification for that class of employees in that employment. Thus, an obligatfon has been thrust ‘on every employer to pay wages, which shall not be less than the minimum rate of wages fixed under this Enactment. Under Section 13 of the Minimum Wages Act, liberty has been accorded to fix the number of hours of “Work, which shall constitute a normal working day,