CS Executive · Setting Up of Business, Industrial and Labour Laws · Constitution and Labour Laws
Meera, a compliance officer at a Pune manufacturing firm, is updating the company's labour compliance manual. She wants to know how many Labour Codes now consolidate the earlier central labour laws, and which of the following is one of them. Which option correctly identifies one of the four Labour Codes?
The Code on Wages, 2019 is one of the four Labour Codes. The others are the Industrial Relations Code, the Code on Social Security and the OSH and Working Conditions Code, all of 2020. The remaining names are not separate codes because their subjects were merged into these four.
- AThe Code on Wages, 2019Correct
- BThe Factories Code, 2019
- CThe Trade Unions Code, 2020
- DThe Employee Compensation Code, 2020
Explanation
The four Labour Codes are the Code on Wages, 2019; the Industrial Relations Code, 2020; the Code on Social Security, 2020; and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020. The other three names do not exist as separate codes, since their subject matter was merged into these four.
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