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Arvind runs a textile unit in Surat and asks which earlier laws were folded into the Code on Social Security, 2020. Which of the following earlier enactments was subsumed into that Code?

The Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 was subsumed into the Code on Social Security, 2020, along with ESI, gratuity, maternity benefit and employees' compensation laws. The other options were merged into the Industrial Relations Code, the Code on Wages and the OSH Code respectively.

  1. AThe Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952Correct
  2. BThe Trade Unions Act, 1926
  3. CThe Minimum Wages Act, 1948
  4. DThe Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970

Explanation

The Code on Social Security, 2020 subsumes laws such as the EPF Act, 1952, the ESI Act, 1948, the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 and the Employees' Compensation Act, 1923. The Trade Unions Act went into the Industrial Relations Code, the Minimum Wages Act into the Code on Wages, and the Contract Labour Act into the OSH Code.

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