Labour Gazette Vol. LXIII, No. 2, October 1983

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October 1983. MONTH IN BRIEF. CURRENT NOTES: Pay panel to seek organisations view; No cost in high for health safety; Bonus for all central staff likely; Patil critical of ESI for poor service and misuse of funds; Bombay mills may open soon-Patil; Aid pattern for job scheme announced; Some facts regarding E.S.I. scheme; Government’s programme for one job per rural family; Productivity-linked bonus for govt. employees under study; Beneficiaries under E.S.I. scheme; Efforts to lower birth rate; State labour minister’s meet on September 24; Central directive to states on industrial safety; E.S.I. schemes to be revamped; No wage cut for ‘go-slow’; Children’s Act extended to building industry; 8,000 bounded labourers rehabilitated; Grievance settlement authority set up; 32 days’ salary as bonus for railmen; Order to settle family pension claims issued. ARTICLES REPORTS, ENQUIRIES ETC.: Problems of working women, by S. V. Gole. LABOUR LEGISLATION: L.A. Bill No. XL of 1983 (Maharashtra Workmen’s Minimum House Rent Allowance Act, 1983). GIST OF IMPORTANT NOTIFICATIONS UNDER LABOUR LAWS. CPI NUMBERS FOR WORKING CLASS IN MAHARASHTRA STATE: Bombay, Sholapur, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nanded, Jalgaon, Pune. ALL INDIA AVERAGE CPI FOR INDUSTRIAL WORKERS. STATEMENT SHOWING CPI NUMBERS FOR WORKING CLASS BY GROUPS FOR SEVEN CENTRES OF MAHARASHTRA. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Industrial relations, Maharashtra; Industrial disputes, Maharashtra; Benefits under the Employees’ State Insurance Scheme.