CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Draft Industrial Relation (Central) Rules, 2020, Ministry of Labour and Employment, October 29, 2020, http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2020/222829.pdf.

Detailed explanation-2: -While the Code on Wages, 2019 has been passed by Parliament, Bills on the other three areas were referred to the Standing Committee on Labour. The Standing Committee has submitted its report on all three Bills. [3] The government has replaced these Bills with new ones on September 19, 2020.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Ministry of Labour & Employment is one of the oldest and important Ministries of the Government of India.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Industrial Relations Code, 2020 provides a broader framework to protect the rights of workers to make unions, to reduce the friction between the employers, and workers and to provide regulations for settlement of industrial disputes.

Detailed explanation-5: -Industrial Relations Code subsumes the Industrial Disputes Act, 1974, the Trade Unions Act, 1926; and Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946. The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code replaces 13 labour laws.