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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APPENDIX I. 517 PAGES. 239. The minimum compensation for death in the case of adults should be Rs. 600 and for complete permanent disablement Rs. 840. The minimum for partial disablement should be correspondingly raised .. 240. (a) In place of the 14 existing wage classes in Schedule IV there should be 17, the upper wage limits for which should be (in rupees} 10, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60, 7G 80, 100, 200 and 300 (b) Except in the last two classes the assumed wage should be the highest wage of the class. For the last two classes the assumed wages should be Rs. 126 and 150 respectively ve ve .e (¢) The maximum half-monthly payment should be raised from Rs. 15 to Rs. 30 and the present maxima for death and permanent disablement should be abolished J .. ve 241. The waiting period should be reduced from ten days to seven 242. The exceptions in the second proviso to section 3(1) should not apply where death or a permanent loss of 509%, or more of earning capa- city results from the accident “F we al 9 ’s 243. (a) The following additions should be made to Schedule ITI {List of occupational diseases) :— (7) poisoning by benzene and its homologues or seque- lae, and (ii) chrome ulceration or its sequelae vou vr (5) The words “solely and ” in section 3(¢) of the Act should be deleted .. ™ sw ss ws wn 244, The administration of the Act should be entrusted, as far as possible, to specially qualified commissioners (not necessarily a whole- time officer), and there should be at least one such officer in every major province. The appointment should not be linked with one in which trans- fers are frequent and it should be possible to appoint more than one commissioner for the same area .. ‘ . . 245. Pamphlets summarising the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act should be made available to workmen and, if the Act is substantially amended, steps should be taken to diffuse informa- tion of the amended law or ‘a ve vs .. 246. (a) Notice to the Commissioner should be compulsory in the case of all fatal accidents occurring to employees while they are on the smployers’ premises or while they are on duty elsewhere .. we (b) The Commissioner should have the power to call upon the employer to show cause why he should not deposit compensation and to inform the dependants that it is open to them to make a claim .. {c) Shipping Masters should transmit to the Commissioner eopies of reports of fatal accidents to seamen on the high seas .. .e 247. In fatal accidents the dependant should® not be required to approach the employer before claiming compensation from the Com- missioner .e - a oe 248. Notice should not be required in certain circumstances, and in no case should want of notice or a defect in a notice act as a bar to pro- ceedings if the employer had timely knowledge of the accident from another source .s nt - oe wo .e 249. T.ocal Governments should have the power to prescribe the maintenance of notice books by employers os > “% 950, The law should not allow funeral expenses to be deducted from the compensation which is to be deposited with the Commissioner, but it should require the latter to deduct the actual cost of the work- man’s funeral expenses up to a limit of Rs. 25 and to pay them to the person by whom they were incurred >» ® 305 305 305 305-6 306 307 307-8 208 309 210 311 311 312 312 312 312 “ia

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