The Ministry has notified the ‘Ease of Compliance to Maintain Registers under various Labour Laws Rules, 2017’ (‘Rules’) by a notification dated February 21, 2017 to facilitate ease of compliance and maintenance of combined registers electronically or otherwise, as required, under certain specified labour laws. The Rules provide for combined registers to be maintained under: (a) Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Central Rules, 1998; (b) Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Central Rules, 1971; (c) Equal Remuneration Rules, 1976; (d) Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Central Rules, 1980; (e) Mines Rules, 1955; (f) Minimum Wages (Central) Rules, 1950; (g) Payment of Wages (Air Transport Services) Rules, 1968, (h) Payment of Wages (Mines) Rules, 1956, (i) Payment of Wages (Railway) Rules, 1938 (j) Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1976; and (k) Working Journalists (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Rules, 1957. Where registers are being maintained in an electronic form, the layout and presentation of the registers may be adjusted without changing the integrity, serial number and contents of the columns in the register.