Labour & Industrial Law - II
Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya · LL.B. Semester 7 · LAIGTT2N
Unit I — Introduction and Institutional Framework under Labour Welfare Codes •
Salient features and objectives of the Code on Social Security, 2020 and the · Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 · Social · Security Organisations: EPF, ESIC, National and State Boards · Registration and coverage of establishments · Composition, powers and functions of authorities · Role of Central and State Governments · Administrative structure, governance and accountability mechanisms · National and State Occupational · Safety and Health Advisory Boards
Unit II — Employees’ Provident Fund and Employees’ State Insurance Framework • EPF
schemes and fund administration · Contributions by employer, employee and contractors · Priority of contributions and statutory recovery mechanisms · Exemptions and special provisions · Appellate mechanisms and adjudication · ESI Corporation and ESI Fund · Coverage and compulsory insurance of employees · Contributions and administrative framework · Statutory benefits: sickness, maternity, disablement, dependants and medical benefits · Employees’ Insurance Court and appellate remedies
Unit III — Gratuity, Maternity Benefit and Employees’ Compensation • Payment of
gratuity: eligibility, nomination and determination · Maternity benefits: statutory rights, protections and employer obligations · Employees’ compensation: employer’s liability, defences and scope · Determination, calculation and distribution of compensation · Procedural framework and claims adjudication
Unit IV — Social Security for Unorganised, Gig and Platform Workers • Statutory
schemes for unorganised workers · Registration, record-keeping and identification mechanisms · Social security framework for gig and platform workers · Social Security Fund and its utilisation · Aadhaar-based registration and delivery of benefits · Scheme-making powers of Central and State · Governments · Building and construction workers’ cess and welfare framework · Issues in implementation and regulatory challenges
Unit V — Occupational Safety, Working Conditions and Enforcement Mechanism •
Duties of employer, employee and other stakeholders · Duties of designers, manufacturers, importers and project engineers · Occupational safety and health standards · Reporting of accidents, occupational diseases and dangerous occurrences · Inspector-cum-Facilitator: powers, functions and compliance role · Working hours, leave, overtime and statutory conditions of employment · Welfare provisions and workplace conditions · Employment of women: safeguards and regulatory framework · Contract labour: licensing, regulation and principal employer liability · Inter-State migrant workers: welfare measures and statutory entitlements · Sector-specific regulation: factories, mines, plantations and construction workers · Maintenance of registers, records and statutory returns · Inspection, assessment and compliance mechanisms · Assessment, determination and recovery of dues · Interest, damages, offences, penalties and compounding of offences under both Codes
- CONDITIONS CODE, 2020
- Concept — definitions, registrations and Duties of Employer and Employee
- Occupational Safety, Health and working conditions
- Maintenance of Registers, Records and Returns
- Special Provision Relating to Employment of Women
- MIGRANT WORKER, ETC ( OSH Code)
- Contract Labour
- Inter — State Migrant Worker sand types of workers (Audio visual, Mines, Beedi and Cigar, Construction, etc)
- Factories and Plantation
- Offences and Penalties
- Authorities, Assessment, Compliance and Recovery
- Offences and Penalties