As we had communicated earlier1, the Ministry of Labour and Employment('Ministry') videits Notification dated 4th November, 2016 being G.S.R. 1048(E) paved way for ease of record keeping under various labor laws by way of proposing Ease of Compliance to Maintain Registers under various Labour Laws Rules, 2016 (the 'Proposed Rules'). The purpose behind the combined registers is to facilitate ease of compliance, maintenance and inspection, and will also make the information provided there under easily accessible to the public through electronic means thereby increasing transparency. The proposed Rules will benefit making references of registers provided under different labor related laws simple, which will serve public purpose in a better way.

Also, the Ministry vide Notification dated February 21, 20172 for ease of compliance of Labour Laws reduced the number of Registers to be maintained to 5 in place of 56 Registers which were provided under the stated Central Labour Laws/Rules.

Now, the Ministry vide its Notification No. Z-20024/ 06 /2016-IT dated 30th April 20173 has invited suggestions on Online Maintenance of Registers under 9 Labour Laws (Central Sphere). This is a reach-out by the Ministry for developing software for online maintenance of the relevant registers by the Establishments. On as is basis the software is reported to have following facilities:

  1. Sign up and login by establishments;
  2. Matrix of 9 labor laws along with the name of registers that are required to be maintained under respective labor laws applicable to that establishment;
  3. Beta version of software in demo mode has been uploaded at http://dotestrun.in
  4. For login at the above URL user id is LIN12345678 and password is Password@123

The Ministry seeks comments of all stakeholders including the establishments for ascertaining:

  1. Ease of the operation of software;
  2. Utility of the software with respect to ease of maintenance of the registers;
  3. Utility of the software with respect to the MIS.

Under April 30 Notification the Ministry has requested stakeholders to login into the software via URL and run it with actual or test data to observe its utility so as to provide comments & suggestions for further improvements/ enhancements/ alteration to make the software more user friendly.

The comments / suggestions should reach the undersigned by 31.05.2017 at mail id itcell-mole@nic.in

Footnotes

1. Indian Legal Impetus, Vol. IX Issue XII (Newsbytes) http://singhassociates.in/UploadImg/NewsImages/Vol%20IX%20Issue%20XII.pdf

2. http://www.labour.nic.in/sites/default/files/Ease%20of%20Compliance%20Rules.pdf

3. http://www.labour.nic.in/sites/default/files/Online_Maintenance_of_Registers_under_9_labour_Laws_0.pdf

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