The Labour Ministry has proposed maximum 12 working hours in a day inclusive of intervals under the draft rules on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH) Code 2020 passed earlier this year by Parliament. However, the weekly working hours limit has been fixed at 48 hours (six days X eight hours, with one weekly […]
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Workers in the gig economy will have to constantly update their details on a web portal in a bid to avail social security benefits, even as gig firms will have to submit contribution towards a fund through self-assessment, according to draft labour rules published by the Central government. The Code on Social Security (Central) Rules,
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New Delhi: To ensure a safe workplace for women employees, the new labour rules being firmed up by the Centre will mandate that establishments, including factories and construction firms, where women have given their consent to work after 7 pm, will not only have to provide them transport, but also ensure that there is a creche
Download: Rules – Code On Social Security, 2020 Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has notified the draft rules under the Code on Social Security, 2020 on 13.11.2020 inviting objections and suggestions, if any, from the stakeholders. Such objections and suggestions are required to be submitted within a period of 45 days from the date
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The Union labour ministry is eyeing early implementation of new labour codes, by finalising the rules thereunder. Soon after getting the codes passed in Parliament, the ministry had in October said that it intended to implement the rules under the three codes – on industrial relations, social security and occupational safety & health – from
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Download: Industrial Relation (Central) Rules, 2020 Download: Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Central Rules, 2020 Industrial Relations Code: Subsumes 3 acts into 1 The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, The Trade Unions Act, 1926 ,The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946. Silent Features: No prior permission needed for upto 300 workers for retrenchment (earlier limit
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Background In the background of the unprecedented slump that the Indian economy is currently going through on account of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns, it had become imperative to bring in some long awaited changes to the Indian labour laws to provide businesses with more leeway to operate and adapt to stay competitive
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Most of the popular commentaries on ease of doing business concentrate on the so-called rigid clauses governing retrenchment of workers and closure of establishments in the Industrial Relations Code (IRC). However, they have ignored the clauses governing the settlement of industrial disputes and the performance of the settlement institutions. The objects of IRC are to
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The objective of labour laws is to “ensure socio-economic justice to labour…”. The First Five Year Plan clearly outlined the objective of the government with respect to compulsory arbitration: “The machinery and procedure relating to compulsory arbitration and adjudication of disputes should be so designed as to secure the essence of a fair settlement based on the principles of
