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Several Labour Welfare Legislations have been enacted and are currently in force.
Labour Laws in India can be classified under the following heads:
- Laws governing Industrial Relations
- Laws relating to Payment of Wages
- Laws relating to conditions of working etc.,
- Laws relating to benefit to women employee
- Laws dealing with deprived section of people
- Laws dealing with social security
I. Industrial Relations:
- Trade Unions Act, 1926
- Industrial Employment Standing Order Act, 1946.
- Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.
II.Related to Wages:
- Payment of Wages Act, 1936
- Minimum Wages Act, 1948
- Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.
III. Working Hours, Conditions of Service and Employment :
- Factories Act, 1948.
- Plantation Labour Act, 1951.
- Mines Act, 1952.
- Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees’ (Conditions of Service and Misc. Provisions) Act, 1955.
- Merchant Shipping Act, 1958.
- Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961.
- Beedi & Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966.
- Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970.
- Sales Promotion Employees Act, 1976.
- Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.
- Dock Workers (Safety, Health & Welfare) Act, 1986.
- Building & Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment & Conditions of Service) Act, 1996.
IV. Equality and Empowerment of Women :
- Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
- Equal Remuneration Act, 1976.
V.Dealing withDeprived and Disadvantaged Sections of the Society:
- Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976
- Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986
- Children (Pledging of Labour) Act, 1933
VI. Social Security:
- Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923.
- Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948.
- Employees’ Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952.
- Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972.
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