Unit 4 of Labour Law and Industrial Relations – II (syllabus: Module IV — the Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act 2008 and the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986: home-based and self-employed workers, the Social Security Boards and administrative machinery, prohibition of employment of children, conditions of work, and offences and penalties). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.
What this unit covers
- Who is an unorganised worker, and how do the definitions fit together?
- Does the Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act confer any enforceable benefit?
- What are the National and State Social Security Boards, and what do they actually do?
- How does an unorganised worker get registered, and why is the card portable?
- What did the 2016 amendment do to the Child Labour Act?
- What are the exceptions to the total prohibition on the employment of children?
- How are the conditions of work of an adolescent regulated?
- What is the procedure for offences and penalties under the Child Labour Act?
Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.
Provisions
- Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act 2008, s. s. 2
- Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act 2008, s. ss. 3, 4, 7
- Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act 2008, s. ss. 5, 6, 11, 12
- Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act 2008, s. ss. 8, 9, 10
- Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986, s. ss. 2(i), 2(ii)
- Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986, s. ss. 3, 3A
- Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986, s. ss. 6 to 13
- Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986, s. ss. 14, 14A, 14B, 14C, 14D, 16