Government of India
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Labour Bureau
Government of India |
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Statutory
Returns
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Status of the Reports |
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The
Factories Act, 1948
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Annual
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i)
Average Daily Employment
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Mandays worked,
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Hours of work,
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Leave with wages,
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Accidents,
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Occupational
diseases
vii)
Safety Measures
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Welfare amenities like canteens, rest rooms, crèches, etc., inspections
and convictions.
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Factories
registered under section 2m(i), 2m(ii) and notified under section 85 of
the Factories Act, 1948.
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Report on Statistics of Factories for the year 2005 & 2006 have been released and Draft Report for the year 2007 is under finalisation. |
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Half
– yearly
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Average
daily number of male and female workers separately for adults, adolescents
and children. This return relates to the first half of every calendar year.
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The
Payment of Wages Act, 1936.
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Annual
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i) Number of Factories covered under the
Act and submitting returns by State and by Industry Code
ii) Average daily employment during the year iii) Total number of man-days worked during the year iv) Total gross wage bill before deductions, by components like basic wages, cash allowances, bonus, arrears and money value of concessions etc. |
Earlier the Act applied to workers earning less than Rs. 1600/- but ceiling
raised to Rs. 6500/- w.e.f. 8.11.2005 vide notification No. 1173 of 2005, and
now to Rs. 10,000/- per month from 8-8-2007 vide notification No. 978 dated
8.8.2007.
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Data
has been
finalised upto
year 2008 for the year 2009 it is
under process for finalisation.
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3.
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The
Minimum Wages Act, 1948
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Annual
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ii) Fixation of Minimum Wages for the first time. iii) Scheduled employments and prevailing Minimum Wage Rates for unskilled workers. iv) Scheduled employments and range of Minimum Wage Rates. v) Comparative Minimum Wage Rates in Scheduled Employments in Central Sphere/ States/ Union Territories. vi) Number of Inspections made, irregularities detected, prosecutions launched, claims preferred in Central Sphere/States and UT's during the year. |
This Act is applicable throughout India.
Minimum rates of Wages are not to be fixed under the Act in respect of any
employment in a state if it employees less than 1000 workers. In special cases
State Govt./UT's are empowered to fix minimum wages for employments even if
total employment is less than 1000 workers.
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Annual
Report on the Working of Minimum Wages Act, 1948 for the year
2008 has been released and for the
year 2009 is under finalisation.
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(iv)
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The
Plantations Labour Act, 1961
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Annual
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i)
Number of days worked,
ii)
Number of mandays worked,
iii)
Average daily employment by sex and age,
iv)
Number of hours worked per week,
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Maternity and sickness benefits
vi)
Welfare amenities and accidents.
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Act
applies to any land used or intended to be used for growing Tea, Coffee,
Rubber, Cinchona and Cardamom.
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Annual Reports for
the years 2002, 2003
and 2004 released.
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(v)
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The
Motor Transport Workers’ Act, 1961
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Annual
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Number
of registered undertaking and average daily employment, distribution of
undertakings by normal daily hours of work and rest intervals, number of
workers entitled to annual leave with wages and workers granted leave,
welfare facilities (i) number of canteens, (ii) rest rooms, (iii) dispensaries,
(iv) doctors, (v) nurses and the number of undertakings providing these
facilities and (vi) number of inspections, prosecutions and convictions.
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Motor
Transport undertakings employing five or more transport workers.
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Annual Reports for
the years 2002, 2003
and 2004 released.
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(vi)
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Shops
and Commercial Establishments Acts
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Annual
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Information
on (a) number of (i) shops, (ii) commercial establishments, (iii) cinemas,
theatres, hotels, restaurants etc., and (b) persons employed in each of
these categories of establishments, number of inspections made, prosecutions
launched, cases disposed of and amount realised as fines, ownership of
shops and employment therein, breakup of the shops into (i) number of shops
independently run by owners, and (ii) other shops.
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The
Act applies to shops, commercial establishments such as, restaurants, hotels
and places of amusement in selected urban areas.
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Annual Reports for
the years 2002, 2003
and 2004 released.
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(vii)
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The
Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
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Annual
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Information
on (a) establishments covered by the Act, (b) employees in the covered
establishments, (c) establishments with certified standing orders in respect
of all or a group of employees at the beginning of the year with the breakup
under (i) number of establishments and (ii) number of employees covered,
(d) number of applications for certification in respect of establishments
which had no certified standing orders either for all or any group of employees
with the breakup: (i) pending at the commencement of the year, (ii) received
during the year, (iii) disposed of during the year and (iv) pending at
the end of the year, (e) similar details in respect of establishments which
had certified standing orders in respect of any group of employees and
which apply for certification of standing orders in respect of other group
of employees , (f) number of establishments having certified standing orders
in respect of all employees at the end of year alongwith the number of
employees therein, (g) number of establishments having certified standing
orders in respect of only a group of employees at the end of the year alongwith
the employees covered therein. (Form -A).
Information
on (a) number of applications for modification of standing orders (i) pending
at the commencement of the year; (ii) received during the year, (iii) disposed
of during the year and (iv) pending at the end of the year; (b) number
of appeals (i) pending at the commencement of the year; (ii) filed during
the year, (iii) disposed of during the year and (iv) pending at the end
of the year (Form -B).
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All
industrial establishments employing 100 or more workers.
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Annual Reports for
the years 2002, 2003
and 2004 released.
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(viii)
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The
Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923.
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Annual
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Average
daily number of workers- adults and minors separately, number of cases
of compensated injuries separately for (i) death, (ii) permanent disablement,
(iii) temporary disablement and (d) similar details of occupational diseases.
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The
Act applies to:
(i)
Certain categories of railway servants.
(ii)
Workers employed in any capacity specified in schedule II of the Act.
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Annual Reports for
the years 2002, 2003
and 2004 released.
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(ix)
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The
Maternity Benefits Act, 1961.
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Annual
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(a)
Number of establishments covered by the Act, (b) number of establishments
submitting returns, (c) average daily employment of women in the establishments
submitting returns, (d) number of women in the establishments submitting
returns, (d) number of women who claimed maternity benefits, (e) number
of claims of maternity benefits accepted and fully/partially paid, (f)
total amount of maternity benefits, (g) amount of bonus paid and (h) number
of cases in which women enjoyed full maternity leave prior to confinement.
All these details together with those relating to enforcement (number of
complaints received, number of cases in which violations were found and
number of prosecutions/convictions) are furnished separately for (i) factories,
(ii) mines and (iii) plantations.
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Factories,
Mines, Plantations and Shops in which 10 or more persons are employed.
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Annual Reports for
the years 2002, 2003
and 2004 released.
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(x)
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The
Collection of Statistics Act, 1953.
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Annual
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Important
items of information collected under the survey by the NSSO for both the
Sectors relate to Employment & labour cost, scheduled working days, mandays/man-hours
worked, mandays paid for, gross earnings before deductions, absenteeism
and Labour turnover. These Statistics are processed and published by the
Labour Bureau.
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Under
the Act, the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) is conducted covering (a)
all factories registered under Section 2m (i) and 2m (ii) of the Factories
Act., 1948, (b) Bidi manufacturing units registered under the Bidi &
Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966. For the purpose of
the Survey, the units in the frame are divided into two sectors viz., (i)
Census and (ii) Sample. The Census Sector covers
(i) All Factories in fireless industrially developed States/ UT's viz. Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. (ii) All Factories employing 100 or more workers for rest of the States/UT's. (iii) All Factories declared as submitting Joint Returns as identified by FOD, NSSO. The units not covered under the Census Sector are covered under Sample Sector. |
Reports
for the year 2007-08 Vol. I & II have been released.
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The
Trade Unions Act, 1926.
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Annual
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Membership,
political fund, ggeneral fund
and assets liabilities of Trade
Unions are the main items of Information.
The Registrar of Trade Unions of each
State/UT submits annual statements in the prescribed proformae to the Labour
Bureau.
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Trade
Unions registered under the Trade Unions Act, 1926
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Report
on Trade Unions in India for the
year 2006 has been released and generation of tables for 2008 are under
progress.
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Voluntary
Returns
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Periodicity
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1.
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Statistics
concerning Industrial Disputes resulting in work stoppages on account of
industrial disputes and reasons other than the industrial disputes.
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Monthly
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Nature
and causes of work stoppages, duration of work stoppages, workers affected,
man-days lost, wage loss and production loss, method of settlement.
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All
economic activity.
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Review
for Industrial Disputes for 2004
& 2005 released.
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2.
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Statistics
concerning closures, retrenchment and lay off.
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Monthly
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i)
Total number of workers affected by closures together with reasons thereof
ii)
Total number of workers retrenched under each category with reasons thereof.
iii)
Total number of workers laid off in each category and mandays lost category-wise
and reasons thereof.
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All
economic activities.
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Review
on closures and retrenchments and lay-offs for 2004
and 2005 released.
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