Dec 30, 2019

Industrial Relations Code Bill, 2019

The Industrial Relations Code Bill, 2019 (‘IRCB’), which has been introduced in the Lok Sabha on November 28, 2019, intends to merge 3 Central labour statutes (viz. the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, the Trade Unions Act, 1926 and the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946) into a single code. Some of the key features of the IRCB pertain to fixed-term employment, revised definitions of ‘retrenchment’, ‘strike’ and ‘workers’, negotiating union / negotiating council, a worker re-skilling fund for training of retrenched employees, enhancement of certain penalties, compounding of offences, and setting up of a two-member tribunal.

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