Reforms in 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.
Accordingly, Ministry of Labour & Employment have taken several
reform initiatives, both legislative reforms as well as Governance
reforms through use of technology, to reduce the complexity in
compliance and bringing transparency and accountability leading to
better enforcement of the Labour Laws. These initiatives, inter-alia,
include:
(i) Enhancing the ceiling of wage limit for the purpose of eligibility
for Bonus and for the purpose of calculation of Bonus as Rs. 21,000/-
per month and Rs. 7,000/- per month respectively by amending the
Payment of Bonus Act 1965.
(ii). Prohibition of employment of children below 14 years in all
occupations and processes through amendment in the Child Labour
(Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986.
(iii) Extending the coverage of Employees State Insurance by increase in
the wage ceiling from Rs. 15000/- per month to Rs. 21000/- per month.
(iv) Enabling provision under the Payment of Wages Act 1936 for payment of wages through Bank accounts.
(v) Launching of unified Shram Suvidha Portal for allotment of a Unique
Labour Identification Number (LIN) for establishments, filing of
self-certified and simplified Online Annual Return and a transparent
Labour Inspection Scheme through computerized system
(vi) Portability of Employees Provident Fund accounts through Universal Account Number (UAN)
The process of Legislative reforms includes consultations 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
suggestions on various legislative reform proposals where the
representatives of all stake holders/State Governments participated and
gave their suggestions on the legislative proposals.
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 today.
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