Labour Gazette Vol. LII, No. 8, April 1973

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April 1973. Month in brief. Current notes: Yeast manufacturing industry-declared as Public Utility Service; Minimum wages act exemptions; Pay scarcity workers at old rated if higher than uniform rates; Ad hoc pension to municipal primary teachers; Birmingham trade mission calls on industries minister; Streamlining of arbitration called key to expanded use; First Asian conference of oil-chemical unions; Labour dept. increases income levels defining poor families; Wage benefit improvements still best way to enrich jobs; Workers press for progress through democratic system; Arbitration linked to free bargaining; Public utility service declared, Feb 1973; All India average CPI for Industrial workers (On base 1960=100), Jan 1973. Articles, Reports, Enquiries etc: Sharing the benefits of productivity (Markley Roberts). Notifications under labour laws. Labour legislation: Maharashtra Industrial Relations (Valiation of certain proceeding) Act 1972; Bombay Shops & Establishments Act 1948; Sick Textile Undertakings (Taking over of management Act 72 of 1972) Act 1972. Other legislation: Maharashtra Regulation of Employment and Welfare Act 1969; Metal and Paper unprotected workers, 1973; CPI (Bombay, Sholapur, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Naded, Jalgaon, Poona; for certain industrial centres; & on base of 1944). Labour Intelligence: Industrial relations, Maharashtra Jan; Industrial disputes, Dec 1972; Progress of important industrial disputes, Dec 1972; Night shifts in Cotton mills (Feb) & Labour turnover (Jan); Trade Unions Act, Maharashtra (Feb); State Insurance Scheme (non-medical side, Feb; medical side, Jan); Fatal accidents and industrial diseases, Maharashtra (Feb); Employment situation, Maharashtra (Jan); Textile employment (decasualization) Scheme (Feb). Labour literature. Cases under labour law. Statistics: Employment through employment exchange & decasualization scheme; CPI, Andhra & Madras (Jan); Dearness allowance; Industrial disputes (Dec); Industrial disputes (Nov); Agricultural wages (Dec).