Labour Law compliance-Basic information

Government of India has complex labor law system which is challenging for employers and HR professionals. Recent years Govt of India is taking inventiveness in labour law reforms to promote and encourage start-ups ecosystem. In this connection, various incentives and ease in regular compliance provisions have been conceptualised.

For any business or enterprises being compliant with all relevant laws are priorities even a laps can cause huge loss to organisation. Hence understanding the importance of statutory compliance is very important for smooth business.

The labour law compliance broadly we can divide in five divisions:

All the establishments must have to obtain necessary registrations and licences under various applicable laws.

Maintain records in prescribed forms and formats.

Submit monthly, quarterly, half yearly and yearly returns as per schedule

Abstracts and notices to displayed in the premises in local language.

Employers must liaison with enforcement officers of respective department and furnish records and documents to respective authorities for inspection as and when asked to produce.

Common acts and rules applicable for almost all establish and industries:

1. Shops and Commercial Establishments Act (S&E)
2. Factories ACT, 1948
3. The Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provision Act - 1952 (EPF)
4. The Employees State Insurance Corporation Act - 1948 (ESIC)
5. The Professional Tax Act (PT)
6. The Labour Welfare Fund Act (LWF)
7. The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act - 1970 (CLRA)
8. The Minimum Wages Act-1948
9. The Payment of Wages Act-1936
10. The Payment of Bonus Act-1965
11. The Maternity Benefit Act-1961
12. The Payment of Gratuity Act-1972
13. The Equal Remuneration Act-1976
14. The Industrial Establishment (N&FH) ACT
15. The Employment Exchange (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) ACT-1959
16. Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) ACT, 2013
17. Employees Compensation ACT-1923
18. The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) ACT 1946 - Model Standing Order Only
19. The Industrial Disputes ACT 1947
20. The Apprentice ACT, 1961
21. The Interstate Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Services) ACT, 1979

Labour law compliance checklist enclosed:Labour law compliance calendar  

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