{"id":14689,"date":"2016-08-17T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T11:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=14689"},"modified":"2016-08-17T11:32:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T11:32:02","slug":"employees-compensation-amendment-bill-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/employees-compensation-amendment-bill-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee\u2019s Compensation (Amendment) Bill 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: In the recently passed Employee\u2019s compensation (Amendment) Bill, 2016 there is provision for removal of which of the following section from the original Act?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Section -28<br \/>\n(b) Section -29<br \/>\n(c) Section -30<br \/>\n(d) Section -31<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related fact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 9 August 2016 the Lok Sabha passed the Employee&#8217;s Compensation (Amendment) Bill 2016 by voice vote.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was presented in the Lok Sabha by Labour and Employment Minister Bandaru Dattatreya on 5 August 2016.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bill amends the Employee\u2019s Compensation Act, 1923. The Act provides payment of compensation to employees and their dependants in the case of injury by industrial accidents, including occupational diseases.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the amendments Section 30 of the Employees&#8217; Compensation Act 1923 provides for appeal in high courts whenever the disputed amount of compensation is more than Rs 300.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bill seeks to raise this to Rs 10,000, which may be further increased through a notification later.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bill also provides for increase in penalty for contravention of the Act to Rs 50,000 from the current Rs 5000 that may be later raised to Rs 1 lakh.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bill introduces a provision which requires an employer to inform the employee of his right to compensation under the Act.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such information must be given in writing (in English, Hindi or the relevant official language) at the time of employing him.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this there is provision for removal of section-30 from the original Act.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Law Commission of India, in its reports in 1974 and 1989 related to the Workmen&#8217;s Compensation Act, 1923, (now known as Employees&#8217; Compensation Act, 1923), had recommended to review\/amend\/repeal various provisions of the Act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prsindia.org\/billtrack\/the-employees-compensation-amendment-bill-2016-4363\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.prsindia.org\/billtrack\/the-employees-compensation-amendment-bill-2016-4363\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/india\/report-employees-compensation-amendment-act-2016-passed-by-lok-sabha-employee-s-to-get-higher-compensation-on-injury-2243264\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/india\/report-employees-compensation-amendment-act-2016-passed-by-lok-sabha-employee-s-to-get-higher-compensation-on-injury-2243264<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/lok-sabha-passes-employees-compensation-amendment-bill-2016\/articleshow\/53618872.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/lok-sabha-passes-employees-compensation-amendment-bill-2016\/articleshow\/53618872.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In the recently passed Employee\u2019s compensation (Amendment) Bill, 2016 there is provision for removal of which of the following section from the original Act? (a) Section -28 (b) Section -29 (c) Section -30 (d) Section -31 Ans: (c) Related fact: On 9 August 2016 the Lok Sabha passed the Employee&#8217;s Compensation (Amendment) Bill 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[1258],"class_list":["post-14689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-current-affairs-national-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}