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xxiv. The Sales Promotion Employees (Condition of Service) Act, 1976
xxv. The Inter State Migrant Workmen (regulation of Employment and
Conditions of Service) Act, 1979
xxvi. The Cine Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1981
xxvii. The Cine Workers and Cinema Theatre Workers Act, 1981
xxviii. The Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986
xxix. The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986

xxx. The Building & Other Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act,
1996
xxxi. The Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of
Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996
xxxii. The Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008

xxxiii. The Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and
Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act, 1988
1.5. Labour Codes

Ministry of Labour & Employment has completed the exercise to rationalise,
simplify and amalgamate the relevant provisions of the labour laws in four codes
- the Code on Wages, 2019, the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Code on Social
Security, 2020 and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions
Code, 2020; which have been enacted. The Code on Wages, 2019 was notified on
8 August 2019 and the remaining three Codes were notified on 29 September
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2020.
1.5.1. Salient features of the Labour Codes
1.5.1.1. The Code of Wages, 2019
i. A statutory right has been created for minimum wages to all workers
whether in organised or unorganised sector as against scheduled
employment at present.
ii. Provisions related to timely payment of wages and authorised deductions
from wages, which are presently applicable only in respect of employees
drawing wages of twenty-four thousand rupees per month, has been made
applicable to all employees irrespective of wage ceiling.
iii. A statutory concept of ‘Floor Wage’ has been introduced.
iv. Method of fixation of minimum wage rates simplified.
1.5.1.2. The Industrial Relations Code, 2020

i. The concept of fixed term employment (FTE) introduced which is a win-
win situation where an employee gets all the benefits of a permanent

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