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Gender Specific (GS) /Gender Natural(GN)
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| Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
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Applies to every establishment whether a factory, mine
or a plantation and to women employed for exhivition of
horse riding, other acrobatics like circus, drama, and
so on.
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To regulate the employment of women in certain establishments
for certain perusals before and after child birth and to provide for maternity
benefit and certain other benefits.
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| Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
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Applies to all employments given in the Schedule
of the Act.
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To provide for the paymentof equal remuneration to men
and women workers and to prevent discrimunation on the grounds of sex against
women inthe matter of employment, training, promotion, and so on.
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| Factories Act, 1948
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Applicable to those premises where any kind of manufacturing
process is being carried out and where 10 or more
workers are working with the aid of power or 20 or more workers are working
without power.
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Protection of women from dangerous work and provides
for health, welfare and safety.
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| Plantation Labour Act, 1951
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Applies to families employed in plantations.
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Lays down conditions for the regulation of plantations
and also has provisions regarding health, safety and welfare of the workers.
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| Mines Act, 1952
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Applies to a person employed in or in connection
with a mine (below ground or above ground).
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Special provisions for welfare of women relating to health,
welfare and hourse of work of persons employed.
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| Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions and Employment)Act,
1966 Beedi Workers Welfare Act
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Applies to establishment and industrial permises where
any manufacturing process connected with the making of beedi or cigar or
both is ordinarily carried out with or without power.
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Includes home workers, Provides for creches, night work
and other welfare workers.
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| Minimum Wages Act, 1948
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Applies to the industries in the schedule 1 and 2 of
the Act.
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Objectives to give protection to workers in small and
scattered industries who get exploited. Provides a mechanism for fixing
and revising minimum rates of wages.
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| Inter-State Migrant Workmen Regulation of Employment
and Conditions of Service Act, 1979
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Applies to all establishments where five or more migrant workers are employed and also to all contractors who employ five or more migrant workers. All workmen, skilled, semi-skilled, unskilled, technical, clerical, and so on are covered by the Act except those in the managerial cadre and those in the supervisory cadre who have wages which exceed Rs.500 per month. | To regulate the conditions of service of migrant workers
like hours of work, wages, and welfare.
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| Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition)Act, 1970
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Applies to every establishment where there are more htna 20 people (contract workers) working or were working in previous 12 months. Does not apply to establishments where the work performed is of casual or intermittent in nature. | To regulate the employment of contract labour in certain
establishments and to provide for its abolition in certain circumstance.
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| Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923
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To all railway servants (excluding those employment
in administrative work) and to persons specified in Schedule
II of the Act which includes persons employed in factories, mines, plantations,
mechanically propelled vehicles, construction work and certain other hazardous
occupations but excludes a person who employment is causal
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Provides for payment of compenstation to workmen or other
dependents as the case may be in case of industrial accidents arising out
of and in course of employment and resulting in disablement or death.
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| Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
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To children below 14 years of age.
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Prohibits employment of children in certain tasks and
to regulate their conditions of work in certain other employments.
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| Employmees State Insurance Act, 1948
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To perennial factories using power in the manufacturing process and employing 10 or more persons and non-power using factories employing 20 or more persons for wages. Restricted to those employees whose wages do not exceed Rs.3,000/- per month. | To provide certain cash benefits to employees in case
of sickness, maternity, employment, injury and medical facilities in kind.
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| No. of Women Workers | More than 30 | More than 50 | More than 50 | More than 20 |
| No. of Children (including Women workers employed in
by the Contractor)
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More than 20
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| Age of Children Provision
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Till six years A suitable room or rooms for the use of
children
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Below six years A suitable room for the use of children
of such women workers
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Below six years A suitable room or rooms for the use
of children
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Below six years Two rooms to be provided for children.
One playroom and the other as a bedroom.
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| Authority to make rules
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The State Government shall make rules relating to location,
standards of construction
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The State Government may make rules prescribing location
and standards of construction, Equipment and amenities
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The State Government may makes rules prescribing location and standards in respect of Construction, Accommodation, Furniture, and so on. | The Chief Labour Commissioner may prescribe the standard
of construction and maintenance of creches.
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