Contents: 1. Enactment and amendments of the payment of wages Act, 1936. 2. Applicability of the Act. 3. Obligations of an employer under the Act. 4. Responsibility for payment of wages. 5. Important definitions and clarifications. 6. Deductions which may be made. 7. Deduction of wages for absence. 8. Claims arising out of deductions/delay in payment of wages. 9. Appeal against the order of the authority. 10. Miscellaneous maters and provisions under the Act. 11. Penalties and procedure for imposition.