Reforms in the Labour Laws
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.
Government has taken a number of initiatives for governance reforms as well as
legislative reforms. 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 by simplifying, amalgamating and rationalizing the
relevant provisions of the Central Labour Laws.
Ø Code on Wages
Ø Code on Industrial
Relations
Ø Code on Social
Security & Welfare
Ø Code on Safety &
Working Conditions
Ministry of Labour & Employment has also
taken steps for drafting a Small Factories Bill for regulating the working and
service conditions of small manufacturing units employing less than 40
workers. Apart from this, amendments in individual legislations have also been
taken up.
The process of Legislative reforms
involves consultation with stakeholders including Central Trade Unions,
Employers’ Association and State Governments in the form of tripartite
consultation. During recent months, several such tripartite meetings have been
held for considering various legislative reform proposals where the
representatives of Central Trade Unions participated and gave their suggestions
on the legislative proposals. The suggestions received from the stakeholders
are considered by the Government. The legislative proposals are at different
stages.
This information
was given by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State (IC) for Labour and
Employment in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
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