Labour Gazette Vol. LII, No. 7, March 1973

Abstract

March 1973. Current notes: President repeats call for strike moratorium; President calls for end to industrial conflict; Mr. Raghunath Reddy new labour minister; Job cess to finance employment schemes; Strike ban not feasible; Entire coal industry taken over by government; Chief minister inaugurates sugar factory; Public utility service decalred for the oxygen and acetylene industry; Deep sea fishing-Fisheries development corporation setup; Prompt payment of relief wages; Public utility service declared, Jan 1973; All India average CPI for Industrial workers (On base 1960=100), Dec 1972. Articles, Reports, Enquiries etc: State policy and industrial relations (N. K. Joshi). Notifications under labour laws. Labour legislations: Factories Act 1948 Maharashtra Factories (Amended) Rules, 1972; Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act 1972 (Act 68, 1972). CPI (Bombay, Sholapur, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Naded, Jalgaon, Poona; for certain industrial centres; & on base of 1944). Labour Intelligence: Industrial relations, Maharashtra (Dec 1972); Industrial disputes (Nov 1972); Important industrial disputes (Nov 1972); Absenteeism Statistics – Cotton trade (Nov) & other industries (Oct, Nov & Dec 1972); Night shifts in Cotton mills (Jan) & Labour turnover (Dec 1972); Trade Unions Act, Maharashtra, Jan 1973; State Insurance Scheme (non-medical side, Jan; medical side, Nov 1972); Fatal accidents and industrial diseases, Maharashtra (Jan); Employment situation, Maharashtra (Dec 1972); Textile employment (decasualization) Scheme (Jan). Labour literature. Cases under labour law. Statistics: Employment through employment exchange & decasualization scheme; CPI, Andhra & Madras (Dec 1972, Jan 1973); Dearness allowance; Industrial disputes (Nov); Agricultural wages (Dec).