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The Compliance of wage and statutory rights to workers has been a major problem in India. This research study was undertaken for a purpose to understand if approximately 8000 workers employed in about 500 Petha manufacturing units of Agra are paid minimum wages, work for prescribed hours or longer, paid overtime wages, enjoy rest intervals etc. This is an empirical and exploratory study in which a sample of 200 workers was purposely selected. Interview schedule was used to collect data from select respondents. It has been found that no child worker is employed and 31%of Petha workers are illiterate. Most of the workers have large family size with themselves being the only earning member. 21% of the Petha workers are not paid the minimum wages and almost all of them are required to work for longer than prescribed hours without overtime wages and rest intervals. Lack of regular inspections, maintenance of records and registers make the enforcement of labour laws very ineffective resulting into their gross violation.