labour service law

  There is no Public Provident Fund (PPF) scheme specially for unorganised sector, being implemented by the Government. However, to encourage the workers of unorganised sector to voluntarily save for their retirement and to lower the cost of operations of the New Pensio..

  The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 and Minimum Wags Act, 1948 have provisions regarding minimum wages. The State Governments are the appropriate Government in respect of the private establishments and the state establishments. In central sphere..

  National Advisory Council (NAC) has recommended a Minimum Social Security Package which includes life and disability cover, financial protection against ill health, maternity benefits and pension upon retirement for unorganized workers. NAC has also recommended single..

  Government has enacted Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 which provides for payment of equal remuneration to men and women workers for the same work or work of similar nature without any discrimination. The Occupational Labour Surveys conducted by Labour Bureau have reveal..

  In accordance with amended para 69 (under para 83 of Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme, 1952), an International Worker is allowed to withdraw the full amount standing to his credit in the fund: span style="font-s..

  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. span style="font-siz..

  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 employment a..

  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 under ..

  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 project is b..

  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 various Pu..

  The following Social Security Schemes are run under the Employees’ Provident Funds & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952: span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman"..

  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. span style="font-size:12.0pt;line..

  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 unemploym..

  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 survey 2..

  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 [CBT (..