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SME Times News Bureau | 22 Sep, 2020
The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed three crucial labour law bills with
voice vote in the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament as part of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi-led government's labour reform initiatives.
The
Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020; the
Industrial Relations Code, 2020; and the Code on Social Security, 2020
were passed when the Opposition was not present in the House as part of
its protest against the government's two farm Bills passed on Sunday
amid widespread protest in various state by farmers.
The Opposition parties had boycotted the House before the Bill was moved in the House for its passage.
Minister
of State with independent charge in the Ministry of Labour and
Employment Santosh Kumar Gangwar had introduced these Bills on September
19 with substantive changes after withdrawing the three codes tabled in
the Parliament in 2019.
In his concluding remark following
debate on these code Bills, Gangwar said various changes have been done
in the labour court as well as in the preamble, and that 174 out of 233
or 74 per cent of the recommendations of the standing committee on
labour across three codes have been included.
The codes will
give powers to state governments on rules related to hiring,
retrenchment and fixing work hours in their factories and establishments
while restricting powers of the workers to form unions. Besides, it
will ensure the government extends social security to all, including the
unorganised and gig workers in a phased manner.
The union labour
ministry has consolidated and amalgamated 29 labour laws into four
codes to significantly improve the ease of compliance and hiring and
firing of workers while keeping the labour welfare under consideration.
The government had earlier notified the Code on Wages which provides for
national level floor wage for all workers.
The Code, is
however, yet to be implemented.The code on occupational safety, health
and working conditions (OSH&WC Code) and the industrial relations
code will give autonomy to states to amend labour laws to suit their
industrial needs and attract investments through labour reforms without
seeking the Centre's permission.
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