In order to improve ease of doing business, Labour Ministry simplifies rules to maintain registers

In a move that would improve the ease of doing business in the country, Bandaru Dattatreya-led labour ministry has rationalised and simplified procedures to maintain registers under various labour laws that would lead to sharp reduction in cost and compliance burden on the employer. The ministry has notified the Ease of Compliance to Maintain Registers under various Labour Laws Rules, 2017 following which 56 registers under nine central laws have now been merged into five registers.
Besides, under the easier compliance regime new registers have only 144 data fields as against 933 data fields earlier. "For the ease of and for the expedient compliance of the requirement of the various labour related laws referred to herein and for the purpose of maintaining combine registers for all such laws, it has become essential to frame separate rules for the said purpose," the notification dated February 21 said.