Thursday, September 12, 2013

Labour dept conducts 2246 inspections



By Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, SEPT 12
Haryana Labour Department has conducted 2246 inspections under various labour laws recently and detected 62 violations of various kinds resulting in recovery of over Rs. 6.80 lakh as fine from defaulters.
          While stating this here today, a spokesman of the Department said that prosecutions were launched against 280 establishments and convictions were obtained in 223 cases. Also, warnings were issued to 25 establishments due to detection of violations committed by them.  As many as 121 industrial disputes were got settled by the conciliation officers of the Labour Department and 54 disputes were withdrawn by workers or trade unions. He said that inspectorate staff of the department also conducted 62 regular inspections for factory building plans and registration fee.
          He said that the department recovered Rs 4.68 crore as unpaid contribution from the employers and spent about Rs 1.43 crore on implementation various labour welfare schemes run by the Welfare Board. The department was running eleven whole time Labour Welfare Centres in important industrial towns of the state. In these centres, workers were provided the facilities of reading room, library, training classes for women and other recreational activities, he added.
====balbirsingh227@gmail.com

No comments: