The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 received the President's assent on September 28, 2020 along with two other codes, all of which are yet to be notified by the Government (for want of formalization and notification of allied rules). The aforesaid Code has subsumed several key legislations on the working conditions of labour and consolidated it into one comprehensive act, including, inter alia, the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, the Factories Act, 1948, etc.
Hereinbelow, we look at certain forms viz. a viz. the changes it brings with regards to the Factories Act, 1948:
