Hyderabad, Aug. 5 -- The Telangana High Court on Tuesday, August 4, gave the state government one final opportunity to place complete facts before it in a batch of petitions challenging the long-pending revision of minimum wages, adjourning the matter to August 20 while making clear that no further extension would be granted.

A bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice GM Mohiuddin, hearing petitions filed by workers' organisations, said the central question raised in its order of July 28 remained unanswered, which is what the legal consequences are of the state having failed to issue final wage notifications under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, before that law was replaced by the Code on Wages, 2019, which came into force on ...