The Government simplifies maintenance of registers under various Labour Laws
Government reduces 56 labour registers to only 5 for 5.85 crore establishments
The Government has simplified the maintenance of Labour registers of
about 5.85 crore establishments in agriculture and non- agriculture
sectors. These registers are related to details of employees, their
salaries, loans/recoveries, attendance etc. This exercise will
drastically reduce the number of registers being maintained by these
establishments from 56 to only 5 by doing away with
overlapping/redundant fields. This will help these establishments to
save cost and efforts and ensure better compliance of Labour Laws.
Under various Central Labour Acts, there is a requirement of maintenance
of registers depending upon the threshold of the number of employees by
the establishments in agriculture and non-agriculture sectors. As per
the Sixth Economic Census of Central Statistical Office conducted during
2013-2014, India has about 5.85 Crore establishments in agricultural
and non-agricultural sectors combined. Out of this, 4.54 Crore
establishments are in non-agricultural sector. While reviewing the
requirement of filing various returns / registers/forms provided under 9
Central Acts, there were several overlapping/ redundant fields that
could be rationalized.
An intention notification was issued on 4th November, 2016 for reducing
the number of registers/data fields and the same was widely circulated
to concerned Ministries / Departments, State Govts., other stakeholders
besides placing the same in public domain. In effect, all previous
registers envisaged under various Acts / Rules have been omitted and
replaced with only 5 common Registers. Such an exercise has reduced
number of data fields in 5 registers to only 144 from the then existing
933 fields in 56 registers.
Ministry of Labour & Employment has also simultaneously undertaken
to develop a software for these 5 common Registers. After development of
the software, the same will be put on the Shram Suvidha Portal of the
Ministry of Labour and Employment for free download with an aim to
facilitate maintenance of those registers in a digitized form.
The Labour Laws under which these registers are maintained include:
(i) The Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996
(ii) The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970
(iii) The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
(iv) The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979
(v) The Mines Act, 1952
(vi) The Minimum Wages Act, 1948
(vii) The Payment of Wages Act, 1936
(viii) The Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976
(ix) The Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1955
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