Labour Gazette Vol. LIII, No. 4, December 1973

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December 1973. Month in brief. Current notes: Minimum wages committee for rubber industry; New members on minimum wages committee; Additional commissioner of labour for Maharashtra-Appointment of; Collective bargaining under adverse circumstances; Giri stresses wage price link-up; Study tour of Indian family planning services; Minister’s award on cement workers wages; Accidents at work in the Uk, 1972; 9-nation seminar on labour problems. Articles, reports, enquiries, etc: Using two new arbitration techniques (Sam Kagel & John Kagel); Frustrated creativity and shopfloor unrest (Michael Mason). Notifications under labour laws. Labour legislation: Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act 1973 (Act 39 of 1973); Employees’ Provident Funds and Family Pension Fund (Amendment) Act 1973 (Act XL 1973). CPI (Bombay, Sholapur, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nanded, Jalgaon, Poona; for certain industrial centres; & on base of 1944). Labour Intelligence: Industrial relations, Maharashtra (Sept); Industrial disputes (Aug); Important industrial disputes (Aug); Absenteeism Statistics – Cotton trade (Sept); Night shifts in Cotton mills (Oct) & Labour turnover (Sept); Trade Unions Act, Maharashtra (Oct); State Insurance Scheme (non-medical side, Oct); Fatal accidents and industrial diseases, Maharashtra (Oct); Employment situation, Maharashtra (Sept); Textile employment (decasualization) Scheme (Oct); Work stoppages, UK, 1972. Labour literature. Statistics: Employment through employment exchange & decasualization scheme; Industrial disputes (Aug); CPI, Andhra & Madras (Sept); Dearness allowance; Agricultural wages (Sept).