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Tuesday 27 October 2015

Labour Min working on 6 bills for passage in Winter Session
Pushing to fast track reforms, the Labour Ministry plans to place as many as six bills before Parliament in the Winter Session starting next month. 
"A lot of work has been done on six legislations under the labour reform process. Ministry is keen to push all of them for passage in the Winter Session of Parliament next month," said a source.
 
They include Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill, 2015, which have already been approved by the Cabinet, the source added.
 
The ministry has also completed tripartite consultations on the Labour Code on Industrial Relations, 2015; Small Factories (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Services) Bill, 2014 and Labour Code on Wages. These are with
 Law Ministry for vetting, the source said. 

Once approved, these bills will be sent to the Cabinet for approval and then to Parliament for passage.
 
The ministry will soon prepare a draft Cabinet proposal on an amendment bill for the Employees' Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Bill for inter-ministerial consultation. After that, it will be sent to the Law Ministry and subsequently to Union Cabinet for approval. Once the mandatory approvals are through, it will be placed before the Parliament for passage.
 
Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya had last month said: "Child Labour Amendment Bill, EPF Bill and Payment of Bonus Bill would come in Winter Session for passage."
 
He had also said: "If time permits we will bring in Code on Wages and Code on industrial relations. Once again we will go for consultation (on these bills) and then go to Cabinet to proceed with these legislations."
 
The Labour Code on Wages seeks to amalgamate and simplify provisions of four laws -- Minimum Wage Act 1948, Payment of Wages Act 1936, Payment of Bonus Act 1965 and Equal Remuneration Act 1976.
 
Even as the Labour Ministry is working to push these bills, the central trade unions are not on board on the industrial code, small factories bill and EPF amendment bill.
 
They have strongly opposed some of the amendments that include norms related to easing retrenchment, lay offs and closure of units provision and forming unions under the proposed New Industrial Relations Code.
 
The bill allows companies employing up to 300 workers to lay off staff without seeking official sanction. At present, industries hiring up to 100 workers are allowed to lay off without permission.


Govt doubles monthly bonus calculation ceiling to Rs 7,000
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To be effective from April 1, 2015
·         The Cabinet also gave its approval for signing of an agreement between India and Egypt on Maritime Transport
·         Once implemented, it will make all industrial workers drawing a monthly salary up to Rs 21,000 eligible for bonus as compared to the current ceiling of Rs 10,000
·         The amendment Bill will be effective from April 1, 2015
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Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 21
The government today gave its approval for amending the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, in a bid to make more industrial workers eligible for better bonus payouts, including those with higher salaries.
The decision was taken at the meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which decided to double the wage ceiling for calculating bonus to Rs 7,000 for factory workers and establishments with 20 or more workers.
The Union Cabinet also gave its approval for signing of an agreement between India and Egypt on Maritime Transport.
“The Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill, 2015, to enhance the monthly bonus calculation ceiling to Rs 7,000 from existing Rs 3,500 was approved by Union Cabinet here,” sources said after the Cabinet meeting.
Although the higher level of bonus for the industrial workers is unlikely to come this festive season, but once implemented, it will make all industrial workers drawing a monthly salary up to Rs 21,000 eligible for bonus, as opposed to the current ceiling of Rs 10,000.
The amendment Bill will be effective from April 1, 2015. Now, the Bill will be tabled in Parliament during the forthcoming winter session for approval and eventual implementation, which the government feels may also help assuage the mood of the opposition parties, particularly the Left parties that are opposing the labour reform Bills.
In recent weeks, the government has already cleared distribution of bonus to non-gazetted railway employees and staff of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO).
The non-gazetted EPFO staff will get 60 days salary as productivity-linked bonus.
The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, is applicable to every factory and other establishment in which 20 or more persons are employed on any day during an accounting year.
The last amendment to both the eligibility limit and the calculation ceilings under the said Act was carried out in 2007 and was made effective from April 1, 2006.
This amendment in the Act to increase wage ceiling and bonus calculation ceiling was one of assurances given by the Centre after 10 Central trade unions went on a one-day strike on September 2.


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Tuesday 13 October 2015


Bharatiya Extra Departmental Employees Union (GDS) G.S. writes a letter GDS problems to Prime Minister of India dated 22-9-2015 




RESTRUCTURING OF SORTER, LDC AND DEO CADRES IN PAOS.




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Tuesday 6 October 2015

Payment of D A to GDS at revised rates w.e.f. 01.07.2015 onwards - reg