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
Better late than never. After much dithering and deferring, India has got down to housekeeping in the area of labour laws. While the maze of labour laws has not prevented India from industrialising or attracting foreign investment, it has made entrepreneurs’ and investors’ life unnecessarily difficult. Consider this, of the 1,536 Acts that govern all
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New Delhi: The recent government regulation to subsume multiple labour laws into four codes is a major reform but the overall success of the labour codes would depend on how the rules are framed and implemented on the ground, says an expert. Parliament in its just-concluded session passed three labour code bills: the Industrial Relations (IR) Code, the Social Security
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