Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XXII. - Burma and India

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER XXIV. for the administration of the Factories Act, the Trade Unions Act and the Workmen’s Compensation Act in the principal industrial centres where there is insufficient work to justify a specialist officer for this purpose. He would also be responsible, with such additional staff as might be re- quired, for the collection, collation and publication of all labour statistics and general intelligence. He should be empowered under the Factories Act and other Acts, if necessary, to enter all industrial establishments and should be generally accessible both to employers and labour. He should also act as a conciliation officer and undertake those duties to which we have referred in dealing with trade disputes. He will then be qualified and should be expected to act as the chief adviser of Govern- ment in all labour matters. He should have his permanent office in the chief industrial centre of the province. Whole-time and Part-time Appointments. As we have observed, there is already a Commissioner of Labour in Madras, and in three other provinces there are appointments which can be converted into such commissionerships. Of the provinces where an entirely new appointment is required, the need is greatest in Bihar and Orissa and the United Provinces. In the Central Provinces and the Punjab, owing to their smaller industrial importance, even the duties we have enumerated may not justify a whole-time appointment. If, here or elsewhere, part-time appointments have to be made, we urge that the principle advocated by us be followed, namely, that there should be an officer with expert knowledge of labour matters who should be retained in the post for a reasonably long period. As regards combina- tion with other duties, we have noted the tendency in some provinces to give the Director of Industries responsibility for labeur matters, and we recognise that this officer’s work tends to give him familiarity with certain aspects of labour. But in our opinion this combination is undesir- able, as the officer who properly discharges his duties in the one appoint- ment tends to diminish his own usefulness in the other. We therefore recommend that this combination be avoided. A better combination would be to give the Labour Commissioner some secretariat duties. A number of officers in various provinces combine administrative and secretariat functions and the combination, though not an ideal one, gives the administrative officer closer contact with Government and reduces the amount of correspondence necessary. Duties of Central Labour Commissioner. We recommend a somewhat similar appointment for the Central Government. The Government of India retain expert advisers in what are primarily provincial subjects such as education and public health, but they have no such officer in respect of labour matters, for which they have a considerable measure of direct responsibility. Whatever the allocation of subjects in future, we believe that the Govern- ment of India will retain some measure of responsibility for labour. They are likely to remain by far the largest employers of labour in India, and have responsibilities in the minor provinces. A Labour Commissioner.

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