The Parliamentary Standing Committee in its recent report has recommended that the current time limit of gratuity for employees be reduced to one year.
new Delhi. Once again, the Parliamentary Standing Committee in Labor Affairs has recommended in its recent report that the existing time limit for gratuity for employees be reduced to one year. Please tell that the time limit for getting gratuity is 5 years. According to a Money Control report, the committee recommended reducing the time limit for working continuously to get unemployment insurance and gratuity from 5 years to one year. It has been suggested amidst layoffs in companies due to financial constraints during the corono virus epidemic. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labor is the chairman of the Biju Janata Dal MP Bhartruhari Mahtab.
This facility should be in case of non-payment of dues by the employer
The Parliament’s Standing Committee on Labor has submitted its final report on the Social Security Code, 2019 (Code of Social Security, 2019) to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, which will replace nine laws related to social security of workers. In its report submitted to the Lok Sabha Speaker, the committee has said that such provisions can be applied to all types of employees including contract workers, seasonal laborers, fixed rate workers and daily / monthly salaried employees. The committee has emphasized that in the event of an employer not paying dues, there should be a strong redressal mechanism
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Insisting on reducing the time limit of gratuity to 1 year, the committee has stated in its report that most of the employees are appointed for short period, which makes them unfit to get gratuity as per the existing norms. Therefore, the committee wants that the 5-year time limit prescribed under the Gratuity Payment Code be reduced to one year of continuous service. It further recommended that this facility should be extended to all types of employees, including contract laborers, seasonal workers and fixed-term employees and daily / monthly wage workers.
migrant workers should be made a separate category
Keeping in mind the migrant crisis brought about by the nationwide lockdown to overcome the corona epidemic in April, the Parliamentary Committee recommended that the Social Security Code 2019 include interstate migrant workers as a separate category and A welfare fund should be created especially for them. Financing of this fund should be proportional to the state sending them, the state employing them, the contractor, the principal employers and the registered migrant workers.
