Factory Bill gets approval

New Delhi: Union Cabinet has approved proposals to amend three labour laws including the Factories Act, 1948, to make them more compatible and beneficial for labourers and the government is likely to table it in the present session of the Parliament, Union labour minister Narendra Singh Tomar said.“Cabinet has given its approval (for the amendments). The amendments would be beneficial for the labourers. We expect that it will be tabled in the present session of Parliament,” Mr Tomar said. 

 

The other two proposals which were cleared by the Cabinet which met on Wednesday included amendment of the Apprentices Act, 1961 and the Labour Laws (exemption from furnishing returns and maintaining registers by certain establishments) Act, 1988. Amendments to the Factories Act would have provisions for safety of women working in night shift.

Trade unions rued about this “unilateral approach” taken up by the government and said whatever reported amen-dments have been done, they did not have any knowledge about it.