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Labour & Service Law News


EPF Benefits for Workers

   15 May 2012 at 09:58

As per the statistics compiled by Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, there are 57,270 enterprises in the country including Chhattisgarh where more than twenty labourers are employed. Benefits are available to all employees covered ..

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Social Security for Construction Workers

   15 May 2012 at 09:58

The Government has enacted the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 and the Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Cess Act, 1996 with a view to regulating the emplo ..

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Protection Against Retrenchment

   15 May 2012 at 09:58

Chapter V(a) & V(b) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 provides for the protection against retrenchment/Layoff and closure as it stipulates that before retrenchment of any workman who has been in continuous service for not less than one year ..

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Schemes for Child Labourers

   15 May 2012 at 09:58

Under the technical co-operation programme, a Project on child labour titled “Converging against Child Labour : Support for India’s Model” is being implemented in 10 districts in 5 states in collaboration with ILO/IPEC. The proje ..

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Labour Commissioners

   15 May 2012 at 09:58

There are 33 sanctioned posts of Regional Labour Commissioners (Central) in the Central Industrial Relations Machinery which handles implementation of various Labour Laws and to look into the complaints received from registered trade unions of var ..

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Social Security under EPF

   15 May 2012 at 09:58

The following Social Security Schemes are run under the Employees’ Provident Funds & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952: (i) Employees’ Provident Funds Scheme(EPF), 1952, (ii) Employees’ Pension Scheme(EPS), 1995, and ..

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Non-Payment of Minimum Wages

   15 May 2012 at 09:58

The Minimum Wages Act, 1948 does not contain any provision for discrimination between men and women workers. All the provisions of the Act equally apply to both men and women workers. In other words, female workers working in any scheduled emplo ..

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Employment to Labourers

   15 May 2012 at 09:58

Average number of days of employment per year for all usual status workers was projected at 318 days during 2006-07 to 2011-12 under the Eleventh Five Year Plan. As per results of 66th round of quinquennial labour force survey on employment and un ..

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Rehabilitation of Child Labourers

   10 May 2012 at 12:09

As per 2001 census, the total number of working children between the age group5-14 years in the country was 1.26 crore. However, in the Survey conducted by NSSO, in 2004-05 the number of working children were estimated at 90.75 lakh. As per NSSO s ..

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Fixing Minimum Pension for Provident Fund Subscribers

   10 May 2012 at 12:09

The Central Government had constituted an Expert Committee for reviewing the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS), 1995. The recommendations of the Expert Committee were placed before the Central Board of Trustees, Employees’ Provident Fund ..

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