IMPORTANT LABOUR LAWS IN INDIA (Complete List)

 List of Important Labour Laws

1.       The Employee’s Compensation Act, 1923

2.       The Trade Unions Act, 1926

3.       The Payment of Wages Act, 1936

4.      The Industrial Employment (Standing Order) Act, 1946

5.      The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947

6.       The Factories Act, 1948

7.       The Minimum Wages Act, 1948

8.       The Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948

9.       The Plantations Labour Act, 1951

10.     The Mines Act, 1952

11.     The Employee’s Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952

12.     The Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of service) and other Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955

13.     The Working Journalists (Fixation of Rates of Wages) Act, 1958

14.     The Employment Exchange (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959

15.     The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (Modified in 2017)

16.     The Cine Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1961

17.     The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961

18.     The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965

19.     The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966

20.     The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970

21.     The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972

22.     The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976

23.     The Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976

24.     The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment & Conditions of Service) Act, 1979

25.     The Cine Workers & Cinema Theatre Workers Act, 1981

26.     The Dock Workers (Safety, Health & Welfare) Act, 1986

27.     The Building & other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment & Conditions of Service) Act, 1996

28.     The Building & other Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act, 1996

29.     Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008

This is a list of 29 Acts pertaining to labour laws, wages, industrial relations, social security and occupational safety, health and working conditions in India which have been subsumed in the 4 Labour Codes.