The Labour Department of Chandigarh On December 28, 2021 has issued the Draft Chandigarh Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Rules, 2021.
The following rules have been superseded:
(i) Chandigarh Factory Rules, 1952;
(ii) Chandigarh Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards Rules, 1993;
(iii) Chandigarh Welfare Officers (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules,
1952;
(iv) Chandigarh Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of
Employment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 2008;
(v) Chandigarh Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Rules, 1973;
(vi) The Chandigarh Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and
Conditions of Service) Rules, 1983;
(vii) Chandigarh Motor Transport Workers Rules, 1963
The following objectives have been given:
The draft rules provide for operationalization of provisions in the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 relating to safety, health and working conditions of the Dock Workers, Building or other construction workers, Mines workers, Inter-State Migrant worker, Contract labour, Working journalist, Audio-visual workers and Sales promotion employees.
The draft Rules are aimed at enhancing safety, health and working conditions in establishments, simplifying the procedures and protocols, allowing electronic mode of maintaining registers, records and furnishing returns, thus ensuring safe, healthy and decent working conditions. The salient features of the draft rules include:
• No employee shall be employed without issuing an appointment letter in a format that includes designation, category of skill, wages, etc.
• Annual health examination shall be conducted free of cost for every worker of factory, dock, mine and building or other construction work, who has completed 45 years of age.
• Journey allowance once in a year for to & for journey
• Single electronic registration, license and annual integrated return for an establishment.
• An All-India single license for contractor supplying or engaging contract labour in more than one State for five years.
• Prohibition of employment of contract labour for core activity of an establishment.
• Payment of wages to contact labour (a) the contractor shall fix the wage periods and no wage period shall exceed one month. (b) The wages of every person employed as contract labour in an establishment or by the contactor shall be paid before the expiry of seventh day after the last day of the wage period. (c) The wages shall be disbursed through bank transfer or electronic mode only.
• Safety committees have been made mandatory for every establishment employing 500 matters and rules have been provided for composition and functions of safety committees.
• The rules relating to safety of women employment in all establishments for all type of work before 6 a.m. and beyond 7 p.m. with their consent.
• Mines rules have been integrated with the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions rules.
The draft of rules will be taken into consideration by Chandigarh Administration on or after the expiry of a period of forty-five days from the date of publication of this notification in the Official Gazette, together with any objection or suggestion, which may be received by the Labour Commissioner, Labour Welfare Centre Building,Sector30-B,UT,Chandigarh inwriting or on email [email protected] and [email protected] from any person before the expiry of the period so specified with respect to the said draft.
