Model Standing Orders For Services Sector

The Ministry of Labour and Employment, with an intent of standardizing the conditions of employment in industrial establishments employing three hundred or more workers to whom the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 ("Occupational Safety Code") applies, has issued the draft Model Standing Orders for Services Sector, 2020 ("Model Standing Orders"). The term 'establishment' under the Occupational Safety Code inter alia includes a place where any industry, trade, business, manufacturing or occupation is carried on with ten or more workers employed.

Some of the key features/provisions of the Model Standing Orders are:

1. Classification of Worker. For the purposes of the Model Standing Orders, the workers have been classified into different categories as below: