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To further ease of ‘doing business’ and ensure better compliance of labour laws, the government has reduced the number of labour registers from 56 to five common ones for 5.85 crore establishments across agriculture and non-agriculture sectors.
“Such an exercise has reduced number of data fields in five registers to only 144 from the existing 933 fields in 56 registers,” related to details of employees, their salaries, loans/recoveries, attendance etc, the Labour Ministry said in a release.
For better complianceIt said this exercise would do away “with overlapping/redundant fields and will help these establishments save cost and efforts and ensure better compliance of labour laws.”
The labour 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, The Mines Act, 1952, The Minimum Wages Act, 1948, The Payment of Wages Act, 1936, The Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976, and The Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1955.
The Ministry said it was also developing software for these five common registers, which, once ready, would be put on the Shram Suvidha Portal for free download.
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