Amendment Of Industrial Disputes (Central) Amendment Rules, 2019

Ministry of Labour and Employment vide notification no G.S.R. 59 E, has made amendments to rule 56A of The Industrial Disputes (Central) Rules, 1957 where Employer shall on or before 1st day of February in each year shall upload online unified annual return in Form GI in the Web Portal of Central Government in the Ministry of Labour and Employment giving information as to the particulars specified in respect of the preceding year. During inspection the Employers are required to produce to Inspector the documents like accounts, books, registers and other documents maintained in electronic form or otherwise

MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT 

NOTIFICATION 

New Delhi, the 29th January, 2019 

G.S.R. 59(E).— Whereas a draft of certain rules further to amend the Industrial Disputes (Central) Rules, 1957, among other rules, were published as required by sub-section (1) of section 38 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, sub-section (i) vide notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Labour and Employment number G.S.R. 413(E), dated the 23rd April, 2018, inviting objections and suggestions from all persons likely to be affected thereby, within a period of three months, from the date on which copies of Official Gazette containing the said notification were made available to the public; And whereas copies of the said Official Gazette were made available to the general public on the 23rd April, 2018; 

And whereas the objections and suggestions received on the said draft rules from the public have been considered by the Central Government; Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 38 of the said Act, the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Industrial Disputes (Central) Rules,1957, namely:— 

1. (1) These rules may be called the Industrial Disputes (Central) Amendment Rules,2019. 

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Industrial Dispute (Central) Rules, 1957, for rule 56A, the following rule shall be substituted, namely:— 

‘56A. Annual return.—Every employer shall, on or before the 1st day of February in each year, upload unified annual return in Form G1 on the web portal of the Central Government in the Ministry of Labour and Employment giving information as to the particulars specified in respect of the preceding year:

Provided that during inspection, the inspector may require the production of accounts, books, registers and other documents maintained in electronic form or otherwise.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this rule, the expression “electronic form” shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (r) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000).’

[F. No. Z-20025/25/2018-LRC] MANISH KUMAR GUPTA, Jt. Secy. Note: The Industrial Dispute (Central) Rules, 1957 was published in the Gazette of India vide notification number S.R.O. 770, dated the 10th March, 1957 and lastly amended vide notification number G.S.R.417(E) dated the 25th May, 2015.