Legislations for Labour Welfare: Overview
Legislations for Labour Welfare: Overview
Question: Numerous legislations have been proposed to protect interests of labourers. Discuss some of these.
- Numerous legislations have been proposed for protecting the interests of labourers
Salaries/Wages of employees are covered under the following acts:
- Minimum Wages Act, 1948,
- Payment of Wages Act, 1936
- Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
- The Factories Act, 1948
- The Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2000
- Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008.
- Second National Commission on Labour has recommended the grouping of existing labour laws into 4 or 5 labour codes on functional basis
Ministry has taken steps for drafting 4/5 Labour Codes namely:
- Wages
- Industrial Relations
- Social Security and Welfare
- Safety and Working Conditions
- Simplification, amalgamation and rationalisation of central labour laws has also been emphasised
The following social security schemes are also in place:
- Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY),
- Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) and
- Atal Pension Yojana (APY)
- A universal social security system has been created for this purpose
- Focus is on poor and underprivileged sections of society
- Schemes are aiming at provision of essential and affordable social protection to citizens
- Various steps have been taken to improve the status of women workers for providing training and employment to ladies under the following institutes:
- National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) at Noida, Uttar Pradesh and 10 Regional Vocational Training Institutes (RVTIs)
Facts and Stats
- Targets fixed provide for skill training were around 3260 seats
- Government has approved 8 new Regional Vocational Training Institutes for Women
- Equal Remuneration Act 1976 provides for payment of equal remuneration to men and women workers
- Act extends to all of India