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The decision will enhance the coverage of the safety, health and working conditions provisions manifold as compared to the present scenario.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">New Code has been drafted after amalgamation, simplification and rationalisation of the relevant provisions of the 13 Central Labour Acts:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Factories Act, 1948;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Mines Act, 1952;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Plantations Labour Act, 1951;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Inter-State Migrant workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Working Journalist and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Misc. 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After the enactment of the Code, all these Acts being subsumed in the Code will be repealed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>[Press Release dt. 10-07-2019]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Cabinet<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 Central Labour Laws brought in the ambit of New Code<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":216787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[36624,10631,36560,36561],"class_list":["post-216734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislationupdates","category-statutes","tag-central-labour-acts","tag-labour-laws","tag-occupational-safety","tag-working-conditions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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