law: Payment of Wages Act, 1936
  5.
  
  Time of payment of wages
  (1)
  
  The wages of every person employed upon or in-
  (a) any railway factory or industrial or other establishment upon or in
  
  which less than one thousand persons are employed, shall be paid before the
  
  expiry of the seventh day,
  (b) any other railway factory or industrial or other establishment shall
  
  be paid before the expiry of the tenth day, after the last day of the
  
  wage-period in respect of which the wages are payable:
  Provided that in the case of persons employed on
  
  a dock wharf or jetty or in a mine the balance of wages found due on completion
  
  of the final tonnage account of the ship or wagons loaded or unloaded as the
  
  case may be shall be paid before the expiry of the seventh day from the day of
  
  such completion.
  (2)
  
  Where the employment of any person is terminated by or on behalf of the
  
  employer the wages earned by him shall be paid before the expiry of the second
  
  working day from the day on which his employment is terminated:
  Provided that where the employment of any person
  
  in an establishment is terminated due to the closure of the establishment for
  
  any reason other than a weekly or other recognised holiday the wages earned by
  
  him shall be paid before the expiry of the second day from the day on which his
  
  employment is so terminated.
  (3)
  
  The State Government may by general or special order exempt to such extent and
  
  subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order the person
  
  responsible for the payment of wages to persons employed upon any railway
  
  (otherwise than in a factory) or to persons employed as daily-rated workers in
  
  the Public Works Department of the Central Government or the State Government
  
  from the operation of this section in respect of wages of any such persons or
  
  class of such persons:
  Provided that in the case of persons employed as
  
  daily-rated workers as aforesaid no such order shall be except in consultation
  
  with the Central Government.
  (4)
  
  Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2) all payments of wages shall be
  
  made on a working day.