Maintenance of Registers, Records and Returns

When the inspector turns up at a Vashi warehouse, the first thing he asks for is not the fire extinguisher but the file: attendance, wages, leave, overtime. If the paper is missing, it is very hard for the employer to prove anything else. Chapter VIII of the OSH Code is a single section, but it is the section on which almost every inspection, penalty and prosecution ends up resting.

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Section 33 of the OSH Code requires every employer to keep a prescribed register of workers, display notices, issue wage slips and file returns with the Inspector-cum-Facilitator, electronically or otherwise, and s.96 punishes failure with a penalty of Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh.

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