Active and applicable Central Labour Laws in India - 2016

1. The Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923
2. The Trade Unions Act, 1926
3. The Payment of Wages Act, 1936
4. The Employers Liability Act, 1938
5. The Children (Pledging of Labour) Act, 1938
6. The Weekly Holidays Act, 1942
7. The Mica Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1946
8. The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946.
9. The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
10. The Minimum Wages Act, 1948
11. The Factories Act, 1948
12. The Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948
13. The Plantation Labour Act, 1951
14. The Mines Act, 1952
15. The Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
16. The Working Journalists and Other Newspapers Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955
17. The Employment Exchange (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959
18. The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
19. The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961
20. The Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1962
21. The Personal Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act, 1963
22. The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
23. The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966
24. The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970.
25. The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
26. The Limestone and Dolomite Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1972
27. The Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976
28. The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
29. The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976
30. The Iron Ore Mines, Manganese Ore Mines and Chrome Ore Mines Labour Welfare (Cess) Act, 197
31. The Iron Ore Mines, Manganese Ore Mines and Chrome Ore Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1976
32. The Beedi Workers Welfare Cess Act, 1976
33. The Beedi Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1976
34. The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.
35. The Cine Workers and Cinema Theatre Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1981
36. The Cine Workers Welfare (Cess) Act, 1981
37. The Cine Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1981
38. The Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986
39. The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
40. The Labour Laws (Exemptions from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act, 1988
41. The Building and Other Construction Workers Cess Act, 1996
42. The Building and Other Constructions Workers’ (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996
43. The Unorganized Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008


Source - Ministry of Labour, GoI, August 2016
http://labour.gov.in/sites/default/files/Annexure/Annexure-A.pdf