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ii. Definition of migrant worker has been widened to include those workers
who would be directly employed by the employer, besides by the
contractor. Further, a migrant, who comes on his own, in the destination
state, can declare himself a migrant worker by registering on an electronic
portal on the basis of self-declaration seeded with Aadhaar.
iii. Employer to provide free of cost annual health check-up for employees
above the specified age working in certain type of establishments.

iv. Issue of appointment letter has been made mandatory for all employees,
covered under the Code which will promote formalisation of
employment.
v. The Code envisages employment of women in all establishments covering
all types of works. Women are now entitled to work at night, subject to
their consent, with provisions of safety, holidays, working hours or any
other condition as prescribed by appropriate Government.

1. The Code On 1. The Minimum Wages Act, 1948
Wages, 2019 2. The Payment of Wages Act, 1936
Notified in Gazette 3. The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
on 8th August, 2019 4. The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
2. The Occupational 1. The Factories Act, 1948
Safety, Health And 2. The Plantation Labour Act, 1951
Working Conditions 3. The Mines Act, 1952
Code, 2020 4. The Building and Other Constructions Workers’
Notified in Gazette (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service)
on 29th September, Act, 1996
2020 5. The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961
6. The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of
Employment) Act, 1966
7. The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act,
1970.
8. The Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service)
Act, 1976
9. The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of
Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.
10. The Cine Workers and Cinema Theatre Workers
(Regulation of Employment) Act, 1981
11. The Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986
12. The Working Journalists and Other Newspapers
Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous
Provisions Act, 1955
13. The Working Journalists (Fixation of rates of Wages) Act,
1958

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