Background
To make compliance with labour laws simpler and to avoid the duplication of effort by employers, the Government of Jammu & Kashmir introduced a Consolidated 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.
This reform is part of the State’s Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) initiatives and is meant to:
Enable labour authorities to monitor compliance more effectively.
Applicability
The scheme is applicable to factories and industrial establishments in J&K that fall under the ambit of various central and state labour laws. Some of the major laws covered include:
i) Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment & Condit ions of Services) Act, 1996
ii) Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970
iii) Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923
iv) J&K Shops and Establishments Act, 1966
v) Factories Act, 1948
vi) Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
vii) Inter-state Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment & Conditions of Service} Act, 1979
viii) J&K Industrial Establishment {National & Festival} Holidays Act, 1974
ix) Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
x) Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961
xi) Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
xii) Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
xiii) Payment of Wages Act, 1936
xiv) Minimum Wages Act, 1948
Consolidated Annual Return Filing
Consolidated annual return to be furnished by March 30 of every calendar year.
Penalty & Punishment
On failure of filing Annual return such penalty/ punishment/fine shall be as the appropriate authority may deems fit.
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