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Indian labour law refers to law regulating labour in India. Traditionally, the Indian government at the federal and state levels has sought to ensure a high degree of protection for workers, but in practice, this differs due to the form of government and because labour is a subject in the concurrent list of the Indian Constitution.
The Code on Wages, 2019, also known as the Wage Code, is an Act of the Parliament of India that consolidates the provisions of four labour laws concerning wage and bonus payments and makes universal the provisions for minimum wages and timely payment of wages for all workers in India.
[1] [2] The Act replaces 13 old central labour laws. The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on 22 September 2020, and the Rajya Sabha on 23 September 2020. [ 3 ] The bill received the presidential assent on 28 September 2020, but the date of coming into force is yet to be notified in the official gazette.
Scholars suggest India's rigid labour laws and excessive regulations assumed to protect the labour are the cause of slow employment growth in high paying, organised sector. [101] [102] [103] India's labour-related acts and regulations have led to labour-market rigidity. This encourages shadow economy for entrepreneurs, an economy that prefers ...
According to one report, [49] the prosecutors have no direction from the central government that if a child is found to be underpaid, the case should be prosecuted not only under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 and the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986, the case should include charges under the Bonded Labour Act of India. The few ...
The employment system of interstate migrant labour was an exploitative system prevalent more or less all over India. It was rampantly institutionalized in Orissa and in some other states. In Orissa the migrant labour (called dadan labour locally) through contractors or agents (called Sardars / Khatedars) are sent for work outside the state in ...
In response to the cries for help, the Indian government put together a nationwide welfare scheme aimed at targeting this very issue: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, or MGNREGA. The Government of India introduced the MGNREGA social welfare program in 2005 to address the problem of unemployment and poverty in rural ...
All India Services Act: 1951: 61 State Financial Corporations Act: 1951: 63 Industries (Development and Regulation) Act: 1951: 65 Plantations Labour Act: 1951: 69 Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act: 1952: 19 Inflammable Substances Act: 1952: 20 Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property Act: 1952: 30