Labour code What it subsumes?
Features of New labour code
Labour Code Subsumes 9 Labour Acts likeSocalsecurity funds for unorganised workers, gig workers and platform workers
on Social
Security &
Employees'Compensation
Act, 1923, Maternity Benefit
Welfare Act, 1961, etc.
Labour Code on Subsumes 13 Labour Acts
Occupational like Factories Act, 1948,
Safety, Heath Plantation Labour Act, 1951,
&Working Mines Act, 1952 etc.
Conditions
Labour Code Subsumes 3 labour acts
on Industrial
Relations
OTrade Union Act, 1926;
OIndustrial Employment
(Standing orders) Act, 1946;
OIndustrial Disputes Act,
1947
Code on Code replaces the following
Wages, 2019 four laws: oCode will apply to all employees. The centraland
for employments
make decisions for all other employments.
OPayment of Wages Act, 1936,
OMinimum Wages Act, 1948,
OPayment ofBonus Act, 1965,
OEqual Remuneration Act, 1976.
oNational Social Security Board for administering
gig workers and platform workers
schemes for unorganised
sector workers,
ONationaldatabase for unorganised sector workers would be created
OOccupational safety boards at the national and state level to advise the central and state
governments on the standards, rules, and regulations to be framed under the Code.
OWomen will be entitled to be employed in all establishments for all types of work
OFree health checkup once a year by the employer for workers which are more than a certain
age.
having at least 300 workers (earlier 100) is required to seek prior
OAn
establishment
permission of the government before dosure, lay-off, or retrenchment.
OAny dispute in relation to discharge, dismissal, retrenchment, or otherwise termination of the
services of an individual worker to be an industrial
dispute.
oProvision for RE-Skilling fund which aims to re-skill those workers who have been fired from
theirjobs,
government will make wage-related decisions
oil fields, among others. State governments will
such as railways, mines,
OCentral government will fix a floor wage, taking into account living standards of workers.
Minimum wages decided by the central or state governments must be higher than the floor wage
OCode prohibits employers from paying wages less than the minimum wages.
oCode prohibits gender discrimination in matters related to wages and recruitment of
employees for the same work or work of similar nature.