Background
To make compliance with labour laws simpler and to avoid the duplication of effort by employers, the Government of Rajasthan introduced Integrated Annual Return system. Instead of submitting multiple separate returns under different labour legislations, employers now have the option to file one combined return along with maintaining integrated registers.
Applicability
Single integrated annual return to be furnished under :
1) Payment of Wages Act, 1936,
2) Minimum Wages Act, 1948,
3) Factories Act, 1948,
4) Working Journalists and other newspaper Employment ( Conditions of service) and miscellaneous provisions Act, 1955,
5) Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961,
6) Payment of Bonus Act, 1965,
7) Beedi and cigar workers (conditions of employment) Act 1966,
8) Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 ,
9) Sales promotion employees (Conditions of service) Act 1976,
10) Equal remuneration Act 1976,
11) Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act 1979,
12) Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986,
13) Building & Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996,
14) Rajasthan Shops & Commercial Establishment Act 1958,
15) Payment of Gratuity Act 1972,
16) Industrial Dispute Act 1947,
17) Maternity Benefit Act 1961,
18) Building and other construction workers welfare cess Act 1996 and
19) Employee State Insurance Act 1948
Single Integrated Annual Return
Any factory, industry or commercial establishment can file single integrated return under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, Minimum Wages Act, 1948, Factories Act, 1948, Working Journalists and other newspaper Employment ( Conditions of service) and miscellaneous provisions Act, 1955, Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961, Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, Beedi and cigar workers (conditions of employment) Act 1966, Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 , Sales promotion employees (Conditions of service) Act 1976, Equal remuneration Act 1976, Inter-State Migrant Workmen ( Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act 1979, Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, Building & Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996, Rajasthan Shops & Commercial Establishment Act 1958, Payment of Gratuity Act 1972, Industrial Dispute Act 1947, Maternity Benefit Act 1961, Building and other construction workers welfare cess Act 1996 and Employee State Insurance Act 1948 by 31st January every year.
Penalty & Punishment
On failure of filing Annual return such penalty/ punishment/fine shall be levied as the appropriate authority may deems fit.
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