Labour Gazette Vol. LXII, No. 2, October 1982

Abstract

October 1982. MONTH IN BRIEF. CURRENT NOTES: Workers say in management essential; Minister threatens enactment on worker participation; Training for overseas labour mooted; Committee on contract labour in ports; Vocational training for rural women; Provident fund instalment for house building planned; 2.75 crores job schemes for women disabled; Minimum wages raised for farm, building workers; Maharashtra Textile Workers to get more; Jute, Plantation committees reconstituted; Central directive to states to locate bonded labourers; Joint panels set up on migrant labour; Industrial workers’ housing corporation soon; Provident fund benefits for extended; NLC a thumping success-For reaching changes in I.D. Act consensus for wage panel; Labour ministers favour arbitration; Vocational training for women stressed. ARTICLES REPORTS, ENQUIRIES ETC.: Vocational rehabilitation of disables workers, by K.M. Rao. LABOUR LEGISLATIONS: L.C. Bill No. IV of 1982-Amendment to the Gratuity Act, 1972. GIST OF IMPORTANT NOTIFICATIONS UNDER LABOUR LAWS. CPI NUMBERS FOR WORKING CLASS IN MAHARASHTRA STATE: Bombay, Sholapur, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nanded, Jalgaon, Pune. STATEMENT SHOWING CPI NUMBERS FOR WORKING CLASS BY GROUPS FOR SEVEN CENTRES OF MAHARASHTRA. ALL INDIA AVERAGE CPI FOR INDUSTRIAL WORKERS. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Industrial relations, Maharashtra; Industrial disputes, Maharashtra; Benefits under the Employees’ State Insurance Scheme.