Meaning and Key expressions: Apprentice, Establishment, Graduate or Technician apprentice, Industry, Technician vocational) apprentice, Trade apprentice, Worker-child Eligibility and Qualifications-Obligation of Employer in engaging apprentice Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986:- Key Definition: Child Labour, Establishment, Family, and Workshop – Prohibition of employment of children-Regulation of Conditions of work of children permitted to work – Statutory Compliances by the occupier The Contract Labour (Regulations and Abolition)Act 1930: Applicability- Non-applicability- contracting out- Key Definitions: Contract labour- Contractor- Establishment- Principal Employer- Wages- Workmen. Registration of Establishments: procedure for employer- Procedure for Contractor. Statutory Compliances

The Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952: Applicability- Non-applicability- Exemption from applicability- Excluded employees. Key Definitions: Employee, Contractors Employees, Basic Wages:- Production Bonus, Incentive Payment, Leave Encashment, Inam, All allowances except HRA, Back wages, Occupier- Members of Fund- Contributions- Statutory Compliances by employer: Declaration of Employees details, Payment of Contribution, Contribution Cards, supply of Pass books, Returns- Rights/ Benefits to employees- Payment/Withdrawal of PF amount The Employee State Insurance Act, 1948: Applicability/ Coverage-Exemption from applicability, Meaning of Key expressions: Contribution, Dependent, Employment Injury, Occupational Disease, Employee, exempted Employees, Immediate Employer, Occupier, Permanent partial Disablement, Permanent Total Disablement, Principal Employer, Temporary Disablement, Wages. Registration of factories and establishments: procedure for registration. Identity Cards - Contributions- Benefits. Statutory Compliances by Principal Employer- Returns and Registers

The Factories Act, 1948: Applicability, Exemption from applicability- Key expressions: Hazardous process, Worker, Factory, Occupier. Requirements for starting a factory- Working hours- Overtime- Annual Leave with wages- Provisions for Health- Provisions for Safety- Provisions relating to welfare- Provisions relating to women workers-Rights of workers-Registers and Returns The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947: Applicability- Key concepts:- Appropriate Government, Award, Conciliation Proceedings, Continuous service, Closure(Procedure for Closure) , Industry, Industrial Dispute, Lock out, Lay-off, Retrenchment : Termination (Procedure for Termination), Strike, Settlement, Workman, Wages. Representation of Parties: Workmen, Employers, Officer, Legal practitioners- contraventions and Penalties.

The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961: Applicability- Exemption from the Act- Maternity Benefits: Computation- Eligibility- Contract workers- computation of wages and maternity benefits-Medical Bonus- Leave for miscarriage, tubectomy. Rights and obligation of employer / women employee The Minimum Wages Act, 1948: Applicability- Meaning of key expressions:- Wages, Employees. Minimum Wages: components-Competent authority to fix minimum-Basis for fixing minimum rates of wages. Payment of Minimum wages: Mode of payment- Time and conditions- Hours of work. Benefits for Employer. List of statutory compliances by employer. The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965: Applicability and non-applicability- Key expressions:- Bonus, Accounting year, Salary or wages, Establishment, Employee. Eligibility:- Criteria-Suspension eligibility-Lay off eligibility, Maternity Leave eligibility, Seasonal employees eligibility, Contract labour eligibility, Teachers eligibility. Bonus under the Act: Minimum- Maximum-Mode of Payment-Computation- Amounts/ sums deductable from bonus- Statutory compliances by the employers.

The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972: Applicability- Exemption for applicability- Meaning of key expressions:- Employee, Family, Wages, Continuous Service. Nomination Procedure- Payment of Gratuity : Eligibility-Computation- procedure for payment- Mode of Payment. Forfeiture of gratuity : procedure-attachment- Responsibilities and liabilities of employers. The Payment of Wages Act, 1936: Applicability- Key expressions:- Wages. Procedure for recovery of wages-Deduction of wages: Permissible deductions- Procedure for effecting deductions for loss or damage-penal deductions for collective absence-Deductions towards perquisites/amenities/house accommodation-Deductions toward advances-Duties and liabilities of employers. The Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923: Applicability- Key expressions:- Dependent, Partial Disablement, Workmen, Wages, Total Disablement. Accident: out of employment-in in the course of employment-Doctrine of notional extension. Compensation: Liability of the employer-Occupational Diseases- Computation procedure- Claim Procedure-Compensation for accident abroad- Obligations of the employer- Returns and Registers