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will enable members to access and 8. Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act 2015:
consolidate previous accounts. The Act passed in December 2015,
Online pensioners can view their has redefined the eligibility for bonus
account and disbursement details payment of the Payment of Bonus Act
online. The statutory wage ceiling under 1965 from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 21,000 per
the Employees Provident Fund and month. This will not only enhance the
Miscellaneous Provisions (EPF&MP) Act bonus payment to the employees but
was enhanced to Rs. 15,000 per month make more eligible to the same.
and a minimum pension of Rs.1,000 has Industrial development and employment
been introduced for pensioners under the generation have been hindered in India by
Employees’ Pension Scheme-1995 from multiplicity of labour laws and their compliance.
September 2014. Working in the direction to remedy this situation,
5. For Unorganised Workers: The Rashtriya the Government has proposed (by late March
Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is a 2017) to group 39 central labour laws into ‘four or
scheme under the Unorganised Workers’ five’ Labour Codes in the coming days. There are
Social Security Act 2008. It is a smart several other new measures under consideration
card-based cashless health insurance towards simplifying the labour regulation regime
scheme, including maternity benefit, in the country.
which provides a cover of Rs 30,000 per
family per annum on a family floater basis cHIld lAbour
to below poverty line (BPL) families in India faces the problem of child labour. There
the unorganised sector. It is proposed is need of a multi-pronged strategy which can
to extend the RSBY to all unorganised rehabilitate children withdrawn from work
workers in a phased manner. through specific schemes and universal elementary
6. National Council for Vocational Training- education. It needs supplemented with economic
Management Information System (NCVT- rehabilitation of their families also.
MIS) portal has been developed for In 2015, the GoI launched the National
streamlining the functioning of Industrial Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme under
Training Institutes (ITIs), Apprenticeship which children rescued/withdrawn from work
Scheme, and assessment/certification of in the age group of 9-14 years are enrolled in
all NCVT training courses. NCLP special training centres, where they are
7. National Career Services Portal: The provided bridge education, vocational training,
Government is mandated to maintain a midday meal, stipend, health care, etc., before
free employment service for its citizens. being mainstreamed into formal education
This is now being transformed with the system. Children in the age group of 5-8 years
launch of the National Career Service are directly linked to the formal education system
(NCS) Portal in July 2015. The NCS through close coordination with the Sarva Shiksha
is envisaged as a digital portal that will Abhiyaan (SSA).
provide a nationwide online platform Government has also proposed an amendment
for job seekers and employers for job in the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation)
matching in a dynamic, efficient and Act, 1986 which aims at complete prohibition on
responsive manner. employment of children below 14 years along with