CENTRAL LABOUR LAWS - INDIA

LIST OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LABOUR LAWS – INDIA  (In Chronological Order)
As of October, 2011

1855 – The Fatal Accidents Act

1923 – The Workmen’s Compensation Act (Amended 2000)
1926 – The Trade Unions Act (Amended 2001)

1933 – The Children (Pledging of Labour) Act
1936 – The Payment of Wages Act (Amended 2005)

1942 – The Weekly Holiday Act
1943 – The War Injuries Ordinance Act
1946 – The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act
1946 – The Mica Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act
1947 – The Industrial Disputes Act

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1948 – The Employees’ State Insurance Act
1948 – The Minimum Wages Act
1948 – The Factories Act
1948 – The Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act

1951 – The Plantation Labour Act
1952 – The Employees’ Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Act (Amended 1996)
1952 – The Mines Act
1955 – The Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees’ (Conditions of Service and Misc. Provisions) Act
1958 – The Working Journalist (Fixation of Rates of Wages) Act
1958 – The Merchant Shipping Act
1959 – The Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act

1961 – The Apprentices Act
1961 – The Maternity Benefit Act
1961 – The Motor Transport Workers Act
1962 – The Personal Injuries Provisions Act
1966 – The Beedi & Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act
1965 – The Payment of Bonus Act

1970 – The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act
1972 – The Payment of Gratuity Act
1972 – The Limestone & Dolomite Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act
1974 – The Coal Mines (Conservation and Development) Act
1976 – The Beedi Workers Welfare Fund Act
1976 – The Iron Ore Mines, Manganese Ore Mines & Chrome Ore Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act
1976 – The Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act
1976 – The Equal Remuneration Act
1976 – The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act
1979 – The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act

1981 – The Cinema Workers and Cinema Theatre Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act
1986 – The Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act
1986 – The Dock Workers (Safety, Health & Welfare) Act
1988 – The Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Register by Certain Establishments) Act

1991 – The Public Liability Insurance Act
1993 – The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry latrines Prohibition Act
1996 – The Employees’ Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Act
1996 – The Building & Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment & Conditions of Service) Act
1997 – The Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) (inapplicability to Major Ports) Act

2000 – The Workmen’s Compensation (Amendments) Act
2001 – The Trade Unions (Amendments) Act
2005 – The Payment of Wages (Amendment) Act
2008 – The Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act

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Total = 46 Acts + 4 Amended Acts + 13 Rules

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SOURCE – Ministry of Labour, Government of India ( http://labour.gov.in/ )