Tamil Nadu Labour Welfare Fund (Amendment) Act, 2018

TAMIL  NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED  BY  AUTHORITY

CHENNAI, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2018     

Thai 17, Hevilambi, Thiruvalluvar Aandu–2049

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 25th January 2018 and is hereby published for general information:—
ACT No. 8 OF 2018.

An Act further to amend the Tamil Nadu Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1972.
BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:

1. (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Labour Welfare Fund (Amendment) Act, 2018.
 (2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notifi cation, appoint.

Amendment of section 2(b)(i)(b)

(b) "employee" means -
(i) any person who is employed for hire or reward to do any work, skilled or unskilled, manual, supervisory, clerical or technical in an establishment for a period of 30 days during the period of the preceding twelve months whether the terms of employment be express or implied, but does not include any person-

(b) who being employed in a supervisory capacity draws wages exceeding three thousand and five hundred rupees per mensem or exercises either by the nature of the duties attached to the office or by reason of the powers vested in him , functions mainly of a managerial nature

2. In section 2 of the Tamil Nadu Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1972, in clause (b), in sub-clause (i), in item (b), for the expression “draws wages exceeding three thousand and five hundred rupees per mensem”, the expression “draws wages exceeding fifteen thousand rupees per mensem” shall be substituted.