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THE LABOUR LAW LIBRARY

FULL TEXT OF CENTRAL AND STATE ACTS AND RULES

Act Year Type Scope Objective
THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY, HEALTH AND WORKING CONDITIONS 2020 Act Central A BILL to consolidate and amend the laws regulating the occupational safety, health and working conditions of the persons employed in an establishment and the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
THE CODE ON SOCIAL SECURITY 2020 Act Central A BILL to consolidate and amend the laws regulating the occupational safety, health and working conditions of the persons employed in an establishment and the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CODE 2020 Act Central A BILL to consolidate and amend the laws regulating the occupational safety, health and working conditions of the persons employed in an establishment and the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
THE CODE ON WAGES 2019 Act Central A BILL to consolidate and amend the laws regulating the occupational safety, health and working conditions of the persons employed in an establishment and the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The Shops & Establishments Act 1954 Act State The Shop and Establishment Act is a state-level law in India that regulates the working conditions of employees in shops, commercial establishments, restaurants, and other businesses. It covers aspects like working hours, wages, leave, holidays, and other terms of employment. Each state and union territory has its own specific Shops and Establishments Act
The Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act 2005 Act Central The Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005, is a law in India that regulates the operation of private security agencies. It mandates that these agencies obtain a license from the state government to operate legally and outlines the conditions for obtaining and maintaining that license. The Act also specifies the responsibilities of private security agencies, including the training and conduct of their guards
Employers Liability Act 1938 Act Central The Employers Liability Act aims to ensure that certain defences shall not be raised in suits for damages in respect of injuries sustained by workmen
The Weekly Holidays Act 1942 Act Central The Weekly Holidays Act provides for grant of weekly holidays to persons employed in shops, restaurants and theatres.
Apprentices Act 1961 Act Central The Apprentices Act seeks to provides for the regulation and control of training of apprentices, and to supplement the availability of trained technical employees for the industry. The Act requires employers to hire apprentices in certain designated trades as notified by the Government.
Factories Act 1948 Act Central The Factories Act provides for the health, safety, welfare, service conditions and other aspects of workers in factories. The Act is enforced by the State Government who frame rules that ensure that local conditions are reflected in enforcement. The Act as amended in 1987 also regulates the safeguards to be adopted for the use and handling of hazardous substances.
Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and working Conditions) Act 1996 Act Central Aims to provide for regulation of employment & conditions of service of the building and other construction workers as also their safety, health and welfare measures
Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act 1970 Act Central The objective of the Contract Labour Act is to regulate the employment of Contract Labour in certain establishments and to provide for its abolition in certain circumstances and for manners connected therewith. The Act empowers the Central or State Governments to prohibit the employment of Contract Labour in any process or operation.
Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986 Act Central The Child Labour Act aims to (i) Ban the employment of children i.e. those who have not completed their fourteenth year in specified occupations and processes (ii) Lay down procedures to decide modifications to the Schedule of banned occupations or processes (iii) regulate the conditions of work of children in employments where they are not prohibited from working (iv) Lay down enhanced penalties for employment of children in employments where they are not prohibited from working (v) to obtain uniformity in the definition of child in the related laws
Employee State Insurance Act 1948 Act Central The ESI Act provides for the provision of benefits to employees in case of sickness, maternity and employment injury. Under the act, employees receive medical relief, cash benefits, maternity benefits, pension to dependents of deceased workers and compensation for fatal or other injuries and diseases. Payments are made through a contributory fund.
Employees Compensation Act 1923 Act Central The act aims to provide workmen and their dependents, compensatory payment, in case of accidents arising out of and in course of employment and causing either death or disablement of workmen.
Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1952 Act Central The Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act provides for the compulsory institution of contributory provident funds, pension funds and deposit linked insurance funds for employees. The act aims to ensure a retiral benefit to secure the future of the employee after retirement.
Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act 1959 Act Central The Employment Exchanges Act aims to provide for compulsory notification of vacancies to employment exchanges.The Act stipulates that every establishment in public sector in that State or area, before filling up any vacancy in any employment in establishment, notify that vacancy to such Employment Exchanges as may be prescribed.
Equal Remuneration Act 1976 Act Central The Equal Remuneration Act act provides for payment of equal remuneration to men and women workers, for the same work and prevents discrimination on the grounds of sex against women in the matter of employment, recruitment and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. This Act was promulgated to give effect to Article 39 of the Constitution which envisages that State shall direct its policy, among other things, towards securing that: there is equal pay for equal work for both men and women.
Industrial Disputes Act 1947 Act Central The objective of the Industrial Disputes Act is to secure industrial peace and harmony by providing machinery and procedure for the investigation and settlement of industrial disputes by negotiations. The Act also lays down (a) The provision for payment of compensation to the Workman on account of closure or lay off or retrenchment. (b) The procedure for prior permission of appropriate Government for laying off or retrenching the workers or closing down industrial establishments (c) Unfair labour practices on part of an employer or a trade union or workers.
Industrial Employment and Standing Orders Act 1946 Act Central The Standing Orders Act requires employers to clearly define and publish standing orders(service rules) and to make them known to the workmen employed by them.
Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act 1979 Act Central The objective of the Act is to regulate the employment of Inter-State Migrant Workmen, to safe guard their interest and to provide for their conditions of service and for matters connected there with.
Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act 1988 Act Central The Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act provides for the exemption from furnishing returns and mantaining registers under certain labour laws for employers in establishments employing a small number of people.
Maternity Benefit Act 1961 Act Central The Maternity Benefit Act aims to regulate the employment of women in certain establishments for certain periods before and after child-birth and to provide for maternity benefits including maternity leave, wages, bonus, nursing breaks etc.
Minimum Wages Act 1948 Act Central The Minimum Wages Act was formulated to provide for fixing minimum rates of wages in certain employments. The Act also governs certain service conditions such as working hours, weekly rest days and payment of overtime for employees covered under the act.
Payment of Bonus Act 1965 Act Central The object of the Payment of Bonus Actis to provide for the payment of bonus (linked with profit or productivity) to persons employed in certain establishments and matters connected therewith.
Payment of Bonus(Amendment) Act 1995 Act Central
Payment of Gratuity Act 1972 Act Central The Payment of Gratuity Act provides for a scheme for the payment of gratuity to employees engaged in factories, mines, oilfields, plantations, ports, railway companies, shops or other establishments. The Act enforces the payment of gratuity, a reward for long service, as a statutory retiral benefit.
Payment of Wages Act 1936 Act Central The Payment of Wages Act aims at regulating the payment of wages to certain classes of employed persons. It provides for the imposition of fines and deductions and lays down wage periods and time and mode of payment of wages. Thus the Act ensures payment of wages in a particular form at regular intervals without unauthorised deductions.
Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013 Act Central An Act to provide protection against sexual harassment of women at workplace and for the prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. WHEREAS sexual harassment results in violation of the fundamental rights of a woman to equality under articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution oflndia and her right to life and to live with dignity under article 21 of the Constitution and right to practice any profession or to carry on any occupation, trade or business which includes a right to a safe environment free from sexual harassment; AND WHEREAS the protection against sexual harassment mid the right to work with dignity are universally recognised human rights by international conventions and instruments such as Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, which has been ratified on the 25th June, 1993 by the Government of India:
Trade Unions Act 1926 Act Central The Trade Unions Act, 1926 provides for registration of trade unions (including association of employers) with a view to render lawful organisation of labour to enable collective bargaining. The act also confers certain protection and privileges on a registered trade union.