Law for protection

1. Prepared By:
Aji R Lal
S3.MBA

2. Protection of women, children &
young persons
1. Employment of women.
2.Employment of young persons.

3. *Work on or near machinery in motion.
*Prohibition of employment near cotton openers.
*Restriction on employment of women.
*Dangerous operations

4. *
Section 22(2) stipulates that in case of women working
on or near machinery in motion, the mounting or shipping of
belts or lubrication or other adjusting operation should be
made or carried out only by a specially trained adult male
worker wearing tight fitting clothing. whose name has been
furnished with a certificate of his appointment.

5. *
According to section 27,no women or child should be
employed in any part of a factory for pressing cotton in
which a cotton opener is at work.

6. *
Every women employed in a factory shall be required
or allowed to work only between the hours of 6am &7
pm.But the state govt. may vary the limits & no such
variation shall authorize the employment of any women
between the hours of 10 pm & 5 am.

7. *
Where the state govt. is of the opinion that any
manufacturing process or operation carried on in a factory
exposes any person employed in it to a serious risk of bodily
injury , poisoning or diseases ,the state govt. may specify the
manufacturing process to be dangerous & prohibit the
employment of women ,children in the manufacturing
process.

8. *The act differentiates b/w adult, adolescent, child and young persons.
*Adult means a person who has completed his 18th year of age.
*An adolescent means a person who has completed his 15th but has not
completed his 18th year.
*A child is a person who has not completed his 15th.
*Child below 14 yr must not be allowed to work, if he work the fitness
certificate should be in the custody of the manager.

9. *
*Working hours of a child is four and half hours in any day.
*A child must not be permitted during night hours.
*Time period should be limited & shift must not be overlap.
*If a child is already working in one factory, he is not allowed to work
in another.
*In case of female children, they are allowed to work b/w 8 am to 7 pm.

10. *
*Manager should maintain a register which contain the children working
in the factory.
*It should be made available to the inspector while the work is going on.
*No child should be allowed to work unless the name is in the register. it
contains:
1.The name of each child worker in a factory.
2.The nature of his work.
3.The group if any, in which he is included.
4.The number of his certificate of fitness granted under section 69 of
the Act.