The Occupational Safety, Health And Working Conditions Code, 2020 is a
code
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to consolidate and amend the laws regulating the
Occupational safety and health
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and
working conditions {{Short description, 1=Overview of and topical guide to working time and conditions
This is a list of topics on working time and conditions.
Legislation
* See :Employment law
Working time
* See :Working time
* Flextime
Working conditions
* Bios ...
of the persons employed in an establishment. The Act replaces 13 old central labour laws.
The bill was passed by the
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...
on 22 September 2020, and the
Rajya Sabha
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on 23 September 2020. 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.
Background
The bill was formulated according to the Report and Recommendations of the Second
National Commission on Labour
National Commission on Labour is an Indian statutory body to recommend the changes in the labour laws.
History
The first National Commission on Labour was set up on 24 December 1966 under the Chairmanship of Justice P.B. Gajendragadkar. The ...
.
It amalgamated
The Factories Act, 1948, The Plantations Labour Act, 1951, The Mines Act, 1952, The Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955, The Working Journalists (Fixation of Rates of Wages) Act, 1958, The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961, The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966, The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, The Sales Promotion Employees (Condition of Service) Act, 1976,
The Inter-State Migrant workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979, The Cine Workers and Cinema Theatre Workers Act, 1981, The Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986 and The Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996.
See also
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The Code on Social Security, 2020
The Code on Social Security, 2020 is a code to amend and consolidate the laws relating to social security with the goal to extend social security to all employees and workers either in the organised or unorganised or any other sectors.
The ...
*
Code on Wages, 2019
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 p ...
*
Industrial Relations Code, 2020
Industrial Relations Code, 2020 consolidates and amends the laws relating to Trade Unions, conditions of employment in industrial establishment or undertaking, investigation and settlement of industrial disputes. The code combines and simplifi ...
References
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Internal migration in India
Acts of the Parliament of India 2020
Indian labour law
Occupational safety and health law