Indian government said it was "actively"
considering amendments to various labour laws including the Child Labour Act,
Factories Act and Minimum Wages Act.
Union Minister for Labour and Employment Bandaru
Dattatreya told Rajya Sabha that the proposal to amend various labour laws are
formulated on the basis of detained tripartite consultation with union
ministries, state governments, employers' and employees organizations which is
a continuous process.
He said his ministry keeps receiving demands to
amend labour laws from various stakeholders from time to time in order to bring
them in tune with better enforcement of labour laws, streamlining inspection
mechanism, more coverage of labour rights and with emerging needs of the
economy which include facilitating investments.
Another proposal is to empower the Central
government also to make rules under the Factories Act on some important
provisions.
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