Code on Social Security The Code on Social Security has been tabled in Parliament as a Bill. It is currently waiting for Gazette Notification. The Social Security Code was introduced in March 2017. In November, the labour ministry dropped some contentious clauses from 2018 draft due to extreme opposition from trade union. This gave an idea about setting up a National Social Security Council that merged and centralized the current Employee’s Provident Fund Organization and Employee’s State Insurance Corporation. After all the commotion and controversial emerge during the process, finally it has been enacted as a Bill. The Code on Social Security has been announced as a bill on 17th September 2019. This draft amalgamates 8 Central Acts i.e.
Social Security Organization Employee’s Provident Fund Organization Employee’s State Insurance Corporation Gratuity Maternity Employee Compensation Building & Other Construction Worker & Social Security for Unorganized Worker
This draft extent to whole of India including Jammu & Kashmir and Leh Ladakh. “Social Worker” means the measures of protection afforded to worker to ensure access to health care and to provide income security, particularly in cases of old age, unemployment, sickness, invalidity, work injury, maternity or loss of a breadwinner by means of rights enshrined and schemes framed under the Code.
Key Features The proposed regulation extents the entire workforce which means it will cover the both the organized and unorganized sector. It is assumed that around 50 crore workers are covered under this code. The code has made changes to addition in the existing definitions such as Appropriate Government, Commissioning mother and Gig worker. The Labour Code includes nine types of Social Security such as Pension, Sickness Benefit, Maternity Benefit, Disablement Benefit, Invalidity Benefit, Dependent’s Benefit, Medical