The Ministry of Labour and Employment on November 19, 2020
introduced the Draft Occupational Safety, Health, and Working
Conditions (Central) Rules, 20201 (hereinafter referred
to as 'draft rules') inviting objections and suggestions,
if any, from the stakeholders. Objections and suggestions are
required to be submitted within a period of 45 days from the date
of notification of the draft rules. The draft rules enumerate
provisions relating to safety, health and working conditions of the
different workmen including but not limited to Dock Workers,
Building or other construction workers, Mines workers, Inter-State
Migrant worker, Contract labour, Working journalist, Audio-visual
workers and Sales promotion employees, etc. The salient features of
the draft rules include the following:
