Whether interim wages included in term ‘wages’ under ESI Act?

Employees State Insurance Corporation & Anr. Vs Mangalam Publications (I) Private Limited (Supreme Court) ISSUE-  Whether interim wages included in the term ‘wages’ under the Act? SECTION 2(22) IN THE EMPLOYEES’ STATE INSURANCE ACT, 1948 WAGES– means all remuneration paid or payable in cash to an employee, if the terms of the contract of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled and includes any payment to an employee in respect of any period of authorised leave, lock-out, strike which is not illegal or lay-off and other additional remunera­tion, if any, paid at in...