Exemption – Labour Laws

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Exemption from returns and registers required under certain labour laws

For an employer in relation to any establishment, whether small establishment or very small establishment. There is an exemption from returns and registers required under certain labour laws. To which a Scheduled Act applies, it shall not be necessary to furnish the returns or to maintain the registers. Under that Scheduled Act required to be furnished or maintained. However, such employer required to:

1. Form A furnishes a Core Return;
2. Maintains registers in Form B, Form C, and Form D, in the case of small establishments; and registers in Form D and Form E, in the case of very small establishments.

It may be noted that as per section 2(d) “Scheduled Act” means an Act specified in the first Schedule and includes the rules made thereunder. Specified in the first Schedule of The Act, as follows:

• The Payment of Wages Act, 1936
• The Weekly Holidays, Act, 1942
• The Plantation Labour Act, 1951
• The Working Journalist and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955
• The Minimum Wages Act, 1948
• The Factories Act, 1948
• The Contract Labour Act, 1970
• The Sales Promotion Employees Act, 1976
• The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976

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