High Court quashes minimum-wage notification for private finance firms
The State had fixed minimum wages for staff in non-banking private finance firms by notification dated 16.01.2020. An association of private lending firms challenged it. The Division Bench allowed the appeal on 18 December 2025 and quashed the notification.
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How we verify →The minimum-wage notification Exhibit P7 stands quashed after the Division Bench allowed the appeal.
What happened
The High Court recorded that the petitioner is a welfare group for private lending firms that opposed state notices setting floor pay for staff in that trade.
The High Court recorded that the association said inclusion in the schedule lacked advance gazette notice, pay fixation copied a panel report, ignored objections, skipped board advice, and applied one scale to tiny and huge firms alike.
The High Court recorded that a Single Judge had rejected the writ petition on 09.04.2024 and the appeal attacked that rejection.
The High Court held the impugned judgment was fit to be interfered with, allowed the appeal, and quashed the pay notice, with no costs ordered.
What the record says
“Writ Appeal is allowed. Exhibit P7 notification is quashed.”
WA No. 1609/2025, operative paragraph — read the full text
A peaceful economic act
The state imposed a wage floor on private employers for staffing decisions; no worker injury, cheating, child or bonded labour was involved, so it was a victimless economic regulation.
What we could not confirm
Full text of Exhibit P7 wage rates not extracted; district shown as court seat as employers are statewide.