Ministry of Labour & Employment06-February, 2017 16:40 IST
Rationalisation of 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. The
Second National Commission on Labour which submitted its Report in 2002
had 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, by simplifying, amalgamating and rationalizing the
relevant provisions of the existing Central Labour Laws. These
initiatives will reduce the complexity in compliance due to multiplicity
of labour laws and facilitate setting up of enterprises and thus
creating the environment for development of business and industry in the
country and generating employment opportunities without diluting basic
aspects of safety, security and health of workers.
Conventions
of International Labour Organization (ILO), on ratification create
legally binding obligation for ratifying country. Ratification of a
convention is a voluntary process. India ratifies a convention only when
our national laws and practices are in full conformity with the
Convention. So far, India has ratified 45 Conventions and 1 Protocol.
This information was given by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State (IC) for Labour and Employment, in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
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