Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State (IC) for Labour and
Employment, in reply to a question in Lok Sabha today said that Reforms
in Labour Laws are an ongoing process to update legislative system to
address the need of the hour and to make them more effective and
contemporary to the emerging economic and industrial scenario. The
Second National Commission which submitted its Report in 2002 had
recommended that the existing Labour Laws should be broadly grouped into
four or five Labour Codes on functional basis. Accordingly, the
Ministry has taken steps for drafting four Labour Codes on Wages;
Industrial Relations; Social Security & Welfare; and Safety and
Working Conditions, by simplifying, amalgamating and rationalizing the
relevant provisions of the existing Central Labour Laws.
These initiatives will reduce the complexity in compliance due to
multiplicity of labour laws and facilitate setting up of enterprises and
thus creating the environment for development of business and industry
in the country and generating employment opportunities without diluting
basic aspects of safety, security and health of workers.
