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EBC's Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020: A Commentary by Dr. J. K. Verma

Eastern Book Company publishes the First Edition (2026) of Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020: A Commentary by Dr. J. K. Verma, Advocate, Patna High Court. It is a section-by-section commentary on the third of India's four labour codes — the one that replaces the entire body of factory, mine, dock, plantation, construction, contract labour and inter-state migrant worker legislation with a single statute.

Why this Code matters

The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 consolidates and repeals thirteen central enactments by force of Section 143, among them the Factories Act, 1948, the Mines Act, 1952, the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, the Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act, 1979, the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996, the Plantations Labour Act, 1951, the Dock Workers Act, 1986, the Working Journalists Acts, the Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961, the Beedi and Cigar Workers Act, 1966 and the Sales Promotion Employees Act, 1976. For any employer or practitioner, the first task is to find where a familiar provision has gone — and that is precisely what this book is built to answer.

Key features

• A comparative table setting the provisions of the new Code against the corresponding provisions of the thirteen repealed enactments, so the old law can be traced into the new.
• Relevant notifications issued under the Code, reproduced at the provisions they relate to rather than relegated to an appendix.
• Full coverage of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Central) Rules, 2026.
• Table of cases and the notification on enforcement of the Code.
• A detailed subject index for fast reference.

Contents

• Table of Cases; Comparative Table; Notification on Enforcement
• Introduction to the Code
• Chapter 1 — Preliminary
• Chapter 2 — Registration
• Chapter 3 — Duties of Employer and Employees, etc.
• Chapter 4 — Occupational Safety and Health
• Chapter 5 — Health, Safety and Working Conditions
• Chapter 6 — Welfare Provisions
• Chapter 7 — Hours of Work and Annual Leave with Wages
• Chapter 8 — Maintenance of Registers, Records and Returns
• Chapter 9 — Inspector-cum-Facilitators and Other Authorities
• Chapter 10 — Special Provisions relating to Employment of Women
• Chapter 11 — Special Provisions for Contract Labour and Inter-State Migrant Workers, etc.
• Chapter 12 — Offences and Penalties
• Chapter 13 — Social Security Fund
• Chapter 14 — Miscellaneous
• First, Second and Third Schedules
• The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Central) Rules, 2026
• Subject Index

Who should buy this book

• Labour law practitioners and advocates appearing before Inspector-cum-Facilitators, labour courts and the High Courts.
• Employers, HR and compliance teams in manufacturing, mining, construction, plantations, transport and the service sector, who must register, maintain records and meet the duties cast by Chapters 3 to 8.
• Contractors and principal employers engaging contract labour or inter-state migrant workers.
• Trade unions and worker representatives.
• Academics, law students and judiciary aspirants reading labour and industrial relations law under the new codes.

About the author

Dr. J. K. Verma is an Advocate at the Patna High Court and a writer on service and labour law. For Eastern Book Company he has revised the standard works Departmental Enquiries and Misconduct in Employment, and he is the author of EBC's companion commentary on the Code on Wages, 2019.

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