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The
government on Thursday reduced the number of registers to be maintained under
the labour laws from 56 to five for about 5.85 crore establishments in a major
step aimed at enhancing the ease of doing business, an official statement said. The Total Investment & Insurance
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According
to a release, the move will facilitate these establishments in agriculture and
non- agriculture sectors to "save cost and efforts and ensure better
compliance of labour laws".
"These
registers are related to details of employees, their salaries,
loans/recoveries, attendance," said the release. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
Under
various Central labour acts, there is a requirement of maintenance of registers
depending upon the threshold of the number of employees by these establishments.
As per
the Sixth Economic Census of Central Statistical Office conducted during
2013-2014, India has about 5.85 crore establishments in agricultural and
non-agricultural sectors combined.
"Out
of this, 4.54 crore establishments are in non-agricultural sector. While
reviewing the requirement of filing various returns/registers/forms provided
under nine Central Acts, there were several overlapping/redundant fields that
could be rationalised," according to the release.
An
intention notification was issued on November 4, 2016 for reducing the number
of registers/data fields and the same was widely circulated to concerned
ministries and departments, state governments, other stakeholders besides
placing the same in public domain.
"In
effect, all previous registers envisaged under various Acts/Rules have been
omitted and replaced with only five common registers. Such an exercise has
reduced number of data fields in five registers to only 144 from the existing
933 fields in 56 registers," the release said.
The
Ministry of Labour & Employment has also simultaneously undertaken
development of a software for these 5 common registers. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
After
development of the software, the same will be put on the Shram Suvidha Portal
of the ministry for free download with an aim to facilitate maintenance of
those registers in a digitised form.
The
laws under which these registers are maintained include the Building and Other
Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act,
1996, the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, the Equal
Remuneration Act, 1976, the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of
Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979, and the Mines Act, 1952.
These
laws also include the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, the Payment of Wages Act, 1936,
the Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976, the Working
Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1955.The Total Investment & Insurance
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