Labour registers for firms reduced to 5 from 56

Enhancing ease of doing business, the government has reduced the number of registers to be maintained under labour laws to 5 from 56 for 58.5 million establishments.

These registers are related to details of employees, their salaries, loans/recoveries, attendance, and others.

This exercise will help establishments save cost and efforts and ensure better compliance with labour laws, the labour ministry said.

Under various Central Labour Acts, there is a requirement of maintenance of registers depending upon the threshold of the number of employees by the establishments in agriculture and non-agriculture sectors, it said.

Going by the Sixth Economic Census of Central Statistical Office conducted