MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
(SHRI BANDARU DATTATREYA)
(a): 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
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industrial scenario. The Second National Commission on Labour has 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 respectively, by simplifying, amalgamating and rationalizing the relevant provisions of the existing Central Labour Laws. Similarly, the Ministry has taken steps to draft Small Factories Bill, regulating the working and service condition in the small manufacturing units employing less than 40 workers. Ministry has also taken steps for amendment of individual Labour legislations including the Factories Act, 1948. All these proposals are at various stages of consideration.
(b) & (c): The process of Legislative reforms includes consultation 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 the stakeholders participated and gave their suggestions. The suggestions received on the legislative proposals are considered by the Government appropriately.
(d): The Government has carried out amendments in the Payment of Bonus Act 1965 and the calculation ceiling of Bonus has been increased from Rs. 3500 per mensem to Rs. 7000/- per mensem or the minimum wage for the scheduled employment, as fixed by the appropriate Government whichever is higher. With regards to Universal Wages System, the provisions of the Code on Wages Bill are still under consideration.
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