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SOCIAL SECURITY CODE
(HEALTH & INSURANCE)
Lakh workers using the new technology
platforms like Uber, Ola, Flipkart, Amazon,
Gig and platform-based work
n Benefits of ESIC to be extended to even
a single worker of a hazardous unit
Plantation workers to get benefits of
n
ESIC
n Units with less than 10 workers to get
the chance to join ESIC voluntarily
n Timely wage guarantee for every worker
n No gender discrimination in wages
Provision of Minimum Floor Wage to do
n
away with regional disparity
Industrial
Relations (IR) Code
Speedy justice to workers from tribunals
n norms under Atal Bimit Vyakti Kalyan Yojna
Cases of workers in tribunals to be settled
n n
within one year
Two members in the tribunal to expedite
n n
the work
Recognition to the Trade Union securing
n is being given for the first time
Expansion of EPFO
(Pension)
n Pension (EPFO) benefits to all workers of
organised, unorganised and self-employed sector
n Self-employed category workers and workers
from some other categories to be brought under
EPFO
n Provision for a Social Security Fund to be made
for the unorganised sector
n Gratuity for fixed term employees not to have
obligation for minimum service tenure
Equal social security to an employee working for
n
a fixed period to a regular employee
n Registration to be done through the portal to
create a national database of workers from the
unorganised sector
n Now, institutions with more than 20 workers to
report vacancies online
51 per cent of votes and recognised union to
negotiate the settlement.
n A council to be constituted from all unions of
a region elsewhere
n Any worker losing job to be given wages as per
15 days salary for re-skilling to learn a new
work after losing job
Trade Unions to be given recognition at the
Central and the State level. This recognition
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