Factory Compliance

Factory Compliance

Factory Compliance

GLC-FACTORY-LICENCE

The Factories Act, 1948, mandates the payment of minimum wages to the workers by prescribing a fixed pay rate. An employer shall pay their employees at least the prescribed minimum wage rate. If an employee is paid less than minimum wage, the employer should pay that employee at least what the law requires. This Act reminds employers that any failure on their part to comply with its provisions will have serious legal consequences.

The Act requires employers to allow a weekly holiday to their workers. It further makes it obligatory for the employer to provide proper sanitary facilities and a clean potable water supply in the factory or workplace. Strict action will be taken against the employer if they fail in providing these facilities to the workers.

Employers are also required to set up first aid boxes in their factory, store first aid records, and ensure proper arrangements for transporting injured workers to a hospital or in-house medical facilities.

Apart from these, the Act has several relevant provisions defining the duty of an employer who has in-house medical facilities and the duty of a doctor who is an official medical officer at the factory. The Act also defines the procedure to be followed if a complaint of any kind is received by or made to the government’s labour department.

The Factories Act, 1948, also provides for implementing some administrative measures regarding which subsequent governments have framed appropriate rules.

Some of these measures are as follows:

The Factory Act, 1948, has provisions for the constitution of a Child Labour Committee in every factory. This committee should consist of employers, workers, representatives from local authorities and a medical officer. The committee is responsible for regulating and controlling employment in the age group of 14 to 18 years at factories where more than 20 persons are employed.
An industrial dispute between the employer and worker(s) can be resolved by a Conciliation Officer appointed by the government. The authority of this officer is to conciliate and not to mediate.
The governments appoint labour officers to look after factory workers’ interests; this officer is a government official. The labour officers must see that no violation of any provisions of the Factories Act, 1948, takes place at any factory in their territories.
The state governments or local authorities have set up welfare funds in every factory. This fund may be established for general or specific purposes depending upon entrepreneurs’ or local authorities’ initiatives. 

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