Labour Gazette Vol. LIII, No. 5, January 1974

Abstract

January 1974. Month in brief. Current notes: Voluntary arbitration-A seminar; Shri PS Nerurkar-appointed a member-secretary; PM desires voluntary restraint on strike; Interim relief for electricity workers; Labour Ministers’ conference-Committee on central gratuity fund; Wage cell inoffing; Britain’s manpower services commission takes over. Articles, Reports, Enquiries etc: Worker participation-New progress in sight (M. Mason); Trade unions gain legal right to information (Robin Smith); Annual report on CPI numbers for the working classes for the state of Maharashtra for 1972. Notifications under labour laws: Public utility service declared in Nov 1972. CPI (Bombay, Sholapur, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Naded, Jalgaon, Poona; for certain industrial centres; & on base of 1944). Labour Intelligence: Industrial relations, Maharashtra (Oct); Industrial disputes (Sept); Important industrial disputes (Sept); Absenteeism Statistics – Cotton trade (Oct); Night shifts in Cotton mills (Nov) & Labour turnover (Oct); Trade Unions Act, Maharashtra (Nov); State Insurance Scheme (non-medical side, Nov); Fatal accidents and industrial diseases, Maharashtra (Nov); Employment situation, Maharashtra (Oct); Textile employment (decasualization) Scheme (Nov). Labour literature. Cases under labour laws. Statistics: Employment through employment exchange & decasualization scheme; Industrial disputes (Sept); Agricultural wages, rural/urban (Oct).