The Ministry of Labor and Employment has finalized the rules under the four Labor Codes.
The Ministry of Labor and Employment has finalized the rules under the four labor codes. This has paved the way to turn the reforms into reality by issuing notification of them to be brought into implementation soon. Four comprehensive codes on salary, industrial relations, social security and occupational safety and health and working conditions (OSH) have already been notified after obtaining the President’s assent. But the rules need to be notified to implement these four codes. Now the ministry has completed the consultation process on the draft rules of the four codes.
Labor Secretary Apoorva Chandra said, “We have finalized the necessary rules to implement the four labor codes.” We are ready to notify these rules. States are doing their work to strengthen the rules under the four codes.
Parliament had passed four broad codes on pay, industrial relations, social security and occupational safety and health and working conditions (OSH), which would eventually rationalize 44 central labor laws. The Parliament passed the Code on Pay in 2019, while the other three Codes received approval from both houses in 2020.
The ministry wants to implement all four codes at once. After creating these rules, the codes can now be notified to all four simultaneously.
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Highlights of the new labor code
>> If an employee works for more than 8 hours a day or more than 48 hours in a week, then he will get double the amount of overtime pay than normal salary.
>> In the draft new labor code, it is proposed to make the working hours of the employees up to 12 hours a day. Earlier this period was 9 hours and it also included one hour rest.
>> In the code named as Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions, the government has said that companies should be allowed to keep working hours for 12 hours in a day.
>> Not only this, the rules have also been fixed regarding the calculation of overtime. If an employee works for 15 to 30 minutes, then he will be counted as a full 30 minutes.
