Maintenance of Registered Under Various Labour Laws and Rules Made Easy
The Ministry of Labour & Employment has notified “Ease of Compliance
to maintain Registers under various Labour Laws Rules, 2017” on 21st
February 2017 which has in effect replaced the 56 Registers/Forms
prescribed under 9 Central Laws and Rules made there under into 5 common
Registers/Forms. Such exercise has reduced the number of data fields
from about 933 to about 144. This will save efforts, costs and lessen
the compliance burden by various establishments.
Reforms in labour laws are an ongoing process to update legislative
system to address the need of the hour and to make them more effective
and contemporary to the emerging economic and industrial scenario. The
Second National Commission on Labour has recommended that the
existing Labour Laws should be broadly grouped into four or five Labour
Codes on functional basis. Accordingly, the Ministry has taken steps for
drafting four Labour Codes on Wages; Industrial Relations; Social
Security & Welfare; and Safety and Working Conditions respectively,
by simplifying, amalgamating and rationalizing the relevant provisions
of the existing Central Labour Laws. Further, amendments in individual
Labour Act viz. Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986,
Payment of Wages Act 1936, Payment of Bonus Act 1965, Maternity Benefit
Act 1961 have also been carried out. These legislative initiatives will
improve the wage security, job security and social security of the
workers.
This information was given by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of
State (IC) for Labour and Employment, in written reply to a question in
Rajya Sabha.
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