THE KARNATAKA DAILY WAGE EMPLOYEES WELFARE ACT, 2012

 

KARNATAKA ACT NO. 19 OF 2013 
THE KARNATAKA DAILY WAGE EMPLOYEES WELFARE ACT, 2012 

Arrangement of Sections 
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS 
Sections: 

1. Short title and commencement 

2. Definitions 

3. Continuation of daily wage employees 

4. Pay, leave and terminal benefits of daily wage employees continued in service 

5. Conduct and discipline 

6. Termination for misconduct 

7. Appeal 

8. Protection of action taken in good faith 

9. Civil court not to have jurisdiction 

10. Power to remove difficulty 

11. Power to make rules 

 
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS 

Act 19 of 2013.-  It is consider necessary to provide for better welfare of the daily wage 

employees working for more than ten years in various establishments and to give them minimum 

security of tenure, better wage and certain social security on termination from long public service and 

for the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto; 

Hence the Bill.   
[L.C. Bill No. 4 of 2012, File No. Samvyashae 77 Shasana 2012] 

[Entries 5 and 41 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.] 

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KARNATAKA ACT NO. 19 OF 2013 
(First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the Fifteenth day of 

February, 2013) 

 THE KARNATAKA DAILY WAGE EMPLOYEES WELFARE ACT, 2012 
(Received the assent of the Governor on the Fourteenth day of February, 2013) 

 

     An Act to provide for welfare of  daily wage employees working for more than ten years in 

various establishments in the State. 

 Whereas, it is expedient to provide for welfare of the daily wage employees working for more 

than ten years in various establishments and to give them minimum security of tenure, better wage 

and certain social security on termination from long public service and for the matters connected 

therewith or incidental thereto;  

Be it enacted in the sixty third year of the Republic of India, as follows:- 

1. Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Daily Wage 

Employees Welfare Act, 2012. 

 (2) It shall come into force at once. 

2. Definitions.-  In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- 

(a)  "The daily wage employee" means an employee engaged by the Government or 

local bodies on daily wage basis, who has worked and completed not less than  

10 years of service as daily wage employee as on 10th April, 2006 and who is 

working as such on the date of commencement of this Act; 

(b) "The Government" means the Government of Karnataka; 

(c) "The Establishment" means an establishment in the Government or in any local 

bodies; 

(d)  "Local bodies" means various Local self Governments, Panchayats and Municipal 

bodies constituted by law by the Government and in corporations including 

statutory or non-statutory authorities or Boards and Government undertakings.  

 3. Continuation of daily wage employees.-(1) Subject to provisions of this Act, the daily 

wage employees in the establishments whose names are notified by the Government under this Act, 

shall be continued on daily wage basis till they complete the age of sixty years.  

 Provided that no daily wage employee shall be continued unless he possessed the 

qualification prescribed for the post on the date of his initial engagement on daily wage basis; 

 (2)  The State Government shall within one year from the date of commencement of this Act 

shall notify the names of eligible daily wage employees of all establishments for the purpose of sub-

section (1). 

4. Pay, leave and terminal benefits of daily wage employees continued in service.-  
(1) Notwithstanding  anything contained in the Karnataka State Civil Services Act, 1978 (Karnataka 

Act 14 of 1990),the Karnataka Civil Services Rules or any other rules governing the  conditions of 

service of Government servants made or deemed to have been  made   under   the  said Act. The 



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pay of a daily wage employee shall be the minimum of the time scale of pay of the post in which he is 

continued in service. He shall also be paid admissible Dearness Allowance and House Rent 

Allowance as may be determined by the Government, by order, from time to time.  A daily wage 

employee shall be entitled for all General Holidays, Casual Leave of fifteen days and Earned Leave 

of thirty days per year.   A daily wage employee may be given an increase in his pay at such interval 

of time as may be determined by the Government, by order.   

(2) The daily wage employee shall be entitled for such terminal benefits or ex-gratia, on his 

discontinuance after attaining the age of Sixty years, as may be determined and notified by the 

Government from time to time.  

5. Conduct and discipline.- The provisions of the Karnataka Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 

1966 shall mutatis mutandis be applicable to the daily wage employee and he shall be liable for such 

disciplinary action including removal after following such procedure as may be prescribed.  

6. Termination for misconduct.- No order terminating the services of a daily wage employee 

who has been continued under the provisions of this Act, for any misconduct shall be passed by the 

competent authority without holding a summary enquiry after giving a reasonable opportunity of being 

heard to the employee.  

7. Appeal.- (1) Any person aggrieved by the order of any officer or Authority  may appeal to 

the,- 

(i)  Government in case of daily wage employee in the Government establishment; 

or 

(ii)  head of the establishment in case of daily wage employee in the establishment 

other than Government establishment. 

(2) The Government or the head of the establishment as the case may be, after hearing the 

aggrieved make such orders as it deems fit which shall be final. 

8. Protection of action taken in good faith.- No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings 

shall lie against the officers of the Government or local bodies for anything done or omitted to be 

done in good faith under this Act. 

 9. Civil court not to have jurisdiction.- No Civil Court shall have jurisdiction to entertain any 

suit or proceeding in respect of any claim for absorption or continuation arising from the provisions of 

this Act. 

10. Power to remove difficulty.- If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this 

Act, the Government may, by general or special order make such provisions as it appears to be 

necessary or expedient to remove the difficulty.  

11. Power to make rules.- (1) The Government may, by notification and after previous 

publication, make rules to regulate other conditions of service of daily wages and for the purposes of 

this Act. 

(2) Every rule made under this  Act, every notification or order under this Act shall be laid as 

soon as may be after it is made before each House of the State Legislature, while it is in session for a 

total period of thirty days, which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive 



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sessions, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately 

following both Houses agree that the rule notification or order should not be made the rule, 

notification or order  shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect,  as the 

case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the 

validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification or order. 
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H.R.BHARDWAJ 
GOVERNOR OF KARNATAKA 

 
 

By Order and in the name of the Governor of Karnataka, 
 
 

G.K. BOREGOWDA 
Secretary to Government 

Department of Parliamentary Affairs 
and Legislation 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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