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Learn the Labour Codes
Short lessons that take you through the four Labour Codes, about 55 minutes in all. Each point cites the provision it comes from, and each lesson ends with a few questions to check your understanding. Every answer shows the law's own words.
- 1The Labour Codes in briefThe four Codes, the laws they replace, when they came into force, and whose rules apply to you.
- 2Who is coveredEmployee and worker, establishment and factory, and the headcounts at which the main parts of the Codes begin.
- 3What counts as wagesThe Codes' definition of wages, what it leaves out, and the 50% rule that adds excluded pay back.
- 4Minimum wages and paying wagesThe minimum rate and the floor wage, when wages are due, what may be deducted, and equal pay for the same work.
- 5Hours, overtime and leaveThe eight-hour day, the weekly limits, overtime at twice the rate of wages, and annual leave with wages.
- 6Social securityGratuity, maternity benefit and the medical bonus, crèches, and social security for gig and platform workers.
- 7Contract labour and inter-State migrant workersWhen the contract labour rules apply, the contractor's licence, who pays if the contractor does not, core activities, and migrant workers.
- 8Joining, discipline and leavingThe appointment letter, standing orders, suspension and subsistence allowance, and retrenchment with its notice, compensation and re-skilling fund.
- 9Safety, health and welfare at workThe employer's and the employee's duties, reporting danger and accidents, welfare facilities and when they are needed, and women's working hours.
- 10Records, returns and inspectionRegisters, notices and wage slips, registering an establishment, the yearly returns, and what Inspector-cum-Facilitators do.
10 lessons and 73 questions. Your answers are kept only in this browser.
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