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Bulletins of Indian Industries & Labour. No. 74 Labour Legislation in India Since 1937

1945

A further measure of safety was provided by the Indian Mines (Amendment) Act 1940 (XXIV of 1940) which made the salaries of the manager the supervisory staff and persons employed in connection with the raising and lowering of the workers payable by the owner of the mine instead of the coal raising contractors. [...] The necessity for the adoption of the legislation preferably by the Central Governinent; for the collection of industrial statistics in India was strongly recommended by the Royal CoMmission on Labour in 1931.3 The Government of the Central Provinces passed an act to that effect in 1939 (the Central Provinces and Berar Collection of Statistics Act 1989 Act XXXIV of 1939) and the Central Governm [...] (Revised) 1937 had fixed 13 years in the case of India as the minimum age for the emploment of children in the transport of passengers goods or mails by rail and the handling of goods at docks 5 the Employment of Children Act 1938 (Act XXVI of 1938) fixed 15 years as the minimum in both cases.6 The Motor Vehicles Act 1939 (IV of 1939) regulates the minimum age of employment the hours of [...] While the employers' representatives were of the opinion that the co-operation between the employers and the workers should be on a voluntary and non-statutory basis the workers' representatives favoured compulsory recognition and the widening of the scope of the Bill with a view to enlarging the rights and privileges of the trade unions. [...] The. Government agreed with the criticism in reference to the representation of the employers' and workers' interests at the Conference but maintained that the changes in the composition of the Conference were not urgent.
commerce industry
Pages
19
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100087
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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Preface
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Labour Legislation in India Since 1937
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Backmatter
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