224 labour law violations detected during 2,743 inspections in Haryana

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Haryana labour Department conducted a total of 2,743 inspections under various labour laws and detected 224 violations of various kinds during July 2015.

The Department also recovered a sum of over `11.36 lakh as fine during July 2015 and as many as 534 prosecutions were launched and 273 convictions were obtained during the month.

A spokesman of Haryana labour Department on Friday said that the Department had conducted 50 regular inspections of various industrial establishments and launched prosecutions in 200 cases under Factories Act, 1948 during July 2015.

He said that in the beginning of the month, 578 industrial disputes were pending and 636 were raised by the workers or their unions thus raising the total number of disputes to 1214.

Out of these 111 industrial disputes were got settled by the conciliation officers of the labour Department and 64 disputes were withdrawn by workers or trade unions.

The spokesman said that the department recovered `312.14 lakh as unpaid contribution and donation of wages from the employers and spent `186.99 lakh on various labour welfare schemes run by the Welfare Board.

He said that the Department is running 11 whole time labour welfare centres in important industrial towns of the State. In these centres, workers are provided the facilities of reading room, library, knitting, training classes (for women) and other recreational activities, he added.

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