Over the years, many governments enacted laws and adopted policies to provide for decent work and life, guarantee minimum wages, cushion against rise in cost of living, ensure equal remuneration and deter employers from making unfair and arbitrary deductions from wages. In recent years, due to the decline in union density, rise in competition, emergence of global production networks, withdrawal of state from policies of welfare state and deregulation in collective bargaining, the influence of trade unions is declining. Today unions realise that the competition is not with the employer, but for customers. The present article attempts to discuss these issues of trade union involvements and their limitations on different fronts in influencing wage and salary administration in present day organisations.