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'High' minimum wage hurting most vulnerable workers: Report
Financial Express Delhi
|April 24, 2026
INDIA'S MINIMUM WAGE laws are inadvertently harming the most vulnerable workers they were meant to protect, according to a report released by the Foundation for Economic Development (FED) on Thursday.
The report stated that the country’s wage floor has been set excessively high relative to actual worker productivity and earnings, effectively pricing millions out of formal employment opportunities.
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