Current Scenario Under the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, licensing norms for contractors can be understood by reading the enactment with its corresponding Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Central Rules, 1971. At this juncture we must also add that the State rules provide further clarity on the norms respective states choose to adopt. However, for the sake of understanding and comparing the norms under the current Contract Labour Act to the Code and…
Introduction The Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions, 2020 subsumes thirteen major central labour enactments. The Factories Act, 1948 is one of the thirteen laws being codified and is currently applicable to factories depending on thresholds set in the corresponding State rule. Factories are generally divided into those operating with the aid of power and those operating without the aid of power, and it is on that basis that the threshold of number…