Certificate Course in Labour Laws (New Codes)

Take a self-assessment to test your knowledge of the wages code, including employee versus worker, minimum wages, when wages are paid, bonus calculation and eligibility, and penalties.

Code on Wages 2019 consolidates four wage laws into nine chapters with 69 sections, covering minimum wages, payment of wages, bonus, equal remuneration, definitions, and penalties.

Explore the code on wages 2019 framework, key definitions, wage concepts, and equal remuneration principles, including contractor labour and no gender discrimination, with minimum wages covered in chapter two.

Understand how the code on wages 2019 sets floor wages, minimum rates by geography and skill categories, and outlines fixing, revising, and overtime pay.

Regulate wage payments and curb unauthorized deductions under the Payment of Wages Act 1936. Set wage periods, payment timelines, and permissible deductions with penalties and clear records.

Understand statutory bonus under chapter four: eligibility for wages up to 21,000 with 30 days work, and a minimum 8.33% (up to 20%) of earnings, paid within eight months.

Describe the central and state advisory boards' composition—employer-employee parity, independent and women’s representation—and outline agendas like minimum wages and women’s employment under the code.

Chapter six covers payment of dues, claims and audit. Employers must pay dues, nominate death or unknown whereabouts and manage claims up to ten times within three years.

Explore industrial relations code 2020 with self-assessment questions for HR and entrepreneurs, covering acts clubbed, dispute types, layoffs, strike and lockout conditions, negotiating trade union, standing orders, and employer complaints.

Consolidates the Industrial Disputes Act 1947, Trade Union Act 1926, and Industrial Employment Standing Order Act 1946 under the Industrial Relations Code 2020 to protect workers and foster fair workplaces.

Explore the Industrial Relations Code 2020 chapter one definitions, including employee and worker concepts, appropriate government, fixed term employment, and wages structures.

Explore bipartite forums with a worker committee and a grievance redressal committee; they foster dialogue, define equal representation, timelines for proceedings within 30 days, and remedies on discharge or dismissal.

Explores the formation, registration thresholds, and legal status of trade unions under the code, including certificate of registration, appeals, negotiating unions, sole negotiating union criteria, and council formation.

Explains standing orders as formal employment conditions under the Industrial Employment Standing Order Act 1946 and Industrial Relations Code 2020, detailing orders and matters like classification, hours, certification, and termination.

Employers cannot unilaterally change terms; they must inform workers and observe a 21-day notice before changes in matters listed in the third schedule, including wages, hours, and leave.

Explains voluntary reference of disputes to arbitration by employer and workers via a written agreement, appoints an umpire if needed, and ensures final, binding arbitration awards.

Explore the mechanism for resolving industrial disputes outside the company, from conciliation officers to tribunals and national tribunals, with binding awards, reinstatement, and wage provisions during proceedings.

Define strikes and lockouts, with 60-day notice validity and a 14-day waiting period. Explain the role of casual leave in strikes, and the escalation through conciliation, tribunals, and arbitration.

Explain layoff, retrenchment, and closure concepts, including continuous service, compensation, notice, and thresholds (50 and 300 workers), plus government permission and timelines.

Explore the social security code 2020 through a practical self-assessment for HRs and entrepreneurs, covering medical benefits, PF and ESI, gratuity, compensation calculations, complaint procedures, and gig and platform workers.

The code on social security consolidates, simplifies, and amends nine acts to provide healthcare access and income security for workers in organized and unorganized sectors, including old age and maternity.

Explore the social security code 2020, consolidating nine acts to extend protection and income security for all workers. Learn key definitions like aggregator, platform work, gig workers, and wages.

Explore the national and state social security boards and related bodies, including provident fund trustees and employees state insurance, and learn their roles, disqualification rules, removal of members, and procedures.

Understand the employees provident fund as a retirement savings scheme, including coverage (20+ employees), 10–12% contributions, wage definitions, edli and pension, contractor liability, and universal account number.

Explain the Employee State Insurance Corporation as a social security and medical scheme covering sickness, maternity, disablement, and death due to occupational hazard for establishments with ten or more workers.

Explain gratuity eligibility and 15 days’ wages per year calculation, including five years of continuous service and death or disablement, with seasonal establishment notes.

Explore the 2020 occupational safety, health, and working conditions code through a self-assessment that clarifies key concepts, coverage, contract labour responsibilities, employer guidelines, and overall code evaluation.

The occupational safety, health and working conditions code 2020 consolidates acts and outlines chapters on registration, safety, welfare, hours, records, and provisions for women, contract labour and inter-state migrant workers.

Introduce the occupational safety, health and working conditions code 2020 and explain contract labour, core activities, establishment, employer, worker, interstate migrant worker, and wages, paving the way for chapter two on registration.

Learn how new establishments must register electronically via the Shram Suvidha portal within 60 days, with a certificate auto generated on expiration if the registering officer fails to act.

Explore the duties of employers and employees under the new labour codes, including hazard-free workplaces, annual health examinations, appointment letters, hazardous waste disposal, and reporting of accidents and occupational diseases.

Maintains registers, records, and returns in prescribed formats, electronically or otherwise, detailing workers, hours, wages, leaves, overtime, attendance, fines, deductions, and wage slips; includes annual returns due Feb 1.