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Labour Amendment Bill Gets Clearance

-The New Indian Express

NEW DELHI: Taking a step towards initiating labour reforms, the BJP Government on Friday managed to get the Labour Amendment Bill passed in the Lok Sabha, thus paving a way for it to become a law. The Bill has already been passed by the Upper House.

The Labour Law (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by certain Establishments) Amendment Bill, 2011, was passed in the Lok Sabha despite the Opposition parties - TMC, Congress and CPM - opposed to the Bill.

Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said the amendments were aimed at simplification of procedures and assured that interests of unorganised workers would be protected.

The Bill seeks to streamline labour laws by exempting large number of small establishments from furnishing returns and maintaining registers.

The Labour Minister said that the Bill provided for changes in the original Act of 1988 to increase the number of laws under which small establishments were exempted from furnishing returns and maintaining registers from 9 to 16.

It amends the definition of ‘small' establishments to cover units employing between 10 to 40 workers as against the limit of 19 workers at present.

The seven Acts that are added to the list include the Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961, the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979, and the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996.