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Labour laws relating to food service establishments sheet
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Explain the labour laws pertaining to food service establishments.

How to lay out the answer. Follow the frame, then write it in your own words.

  1. 1 · Open in two lines. Labour laws protect the wages, hours, safety and welfare of workers. India has brought most central labour laws into four Labour Codes.
  2. 2 · Draw a chart. [Chart: Labour Codes → Wages (2019), Industrial Relations (2020), Social Security (2020), OSH (2020), each with its main older Acts]
  3. 3 · Code on Wages and Industrial Relations Code. Minimum wages, timely pay, bonus, equal pay; trade unions, standing orders, disputes.
  4. 4 · Social Security and OSH Codes. PF, ESI, compensation, maternity benefit, gratuity, gig workers; safety, welfare, hours, contract and migrant labour.
  5. 5 · Other laws. State Shops and Establishments Acts; child labour law; POSH Act 2013; FSS Act 2006 for food handlers.
  6. 6 · In a real kitchen. Appointment letters, registers, weekly off, safe kitchen, medical certificates: the manager's daily duties.
  7. 7 · Close in one line. Obeying labour law keeps a trained, healthy team, which is the base of safe food.

Scoring tip: Name each Code with its year and two or three old Acts it replaced; never quote wage amounts or limits, which change.