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- 1four functional Heads of Departmentப.3
Four Heads of Department: Commissionerate of Labour; Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health; Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services (ESI); Directorate of Employment and Training.
- 2Tamil Nadu is the most industrialisedப.5
The note's framing claim - most industrialised State in India and the second-largest State economy.
- 3The Bonded Labour Systemப.11
Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 - enforced through District-Level and Sub-Divisional Vigilance Committees.
- 4Tamil Nadu Catering Establishments Act, 1958ப.11
The Catering Establishments Act, 1958 covers hotels and restaurants - 17,025 inspections and 6,632 contraventions in 2025-26.
- 5Regulation of Employment and Conditions ofப.12
The parent law for unorganised workers is the Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Work) Act, 1982.
- 6903 industrial disputes and 9 strikesப.13
Conciliation is the department's quiet output: 903 industrial disputes and 9 strikes settled amicably in 2025-26.
- 739 Trade Unionsப.14
The TNPDCL wage settlement of 14.03.2026 covered 39 trade unions and 65,278 workers, for 01.12.2023 to 30.11.2027.
- 81.06 lakh transport workersப.15
The 15th wage revision for State Transport Corporations - a four-year settlement covering 1.06 lakh workers.
- 9Minimum wage consists of a basic wage and an allowance linked toப.21
Definition worth memorising: minimum wage = basic wage + cost-of-living allowance, with variable dearness allowance revised on the Consumer Price Index.
- 10minimum wages have been revised for 4ப.22
2025-26: minimum wages revised for 4 employments; preliminary notifications issued for 14 more.
- 11minimum bonus of 8.33%ப.23
Bonus law: minimum 8.33% and maximum 20% of wages, payable within 8 months of the accounting year, in establishments with 20 or more workers.
- 128,404 inspectionsப.24
Equal Remuneration Act enforcement: 8,404 inspections in 2025-26 for equal pay between men and women.
- 132,144 cases were disposedப.26
Employees' Compensation 2025-26: 2,144 cases disposed, about Rs.94.56 crore ordered as compensation - the largest quasi-judicial payout.
- 14continuous service for not less than five yearsப.26
Gratuity needs five years of continuous service - except on death or permanent disability, where the condition does not apply.
- 15Deputy Commissioners of Labour are the Competent Authoritiesப.27
Gratuity: Deputy Commissioners are the competent authority, Zonal Additional Commissioners the appellate authority.
- 16placed under suspension pending an inquiryப.28
Subsistence allowance is paid to an employee suspended pending inquiry, so the family can live while pay is stopped.
- 17at least 80 days in the 12 monthsப.29
Maternity benefit: 80 days of work in the preceding 12 months, establishment of 10 or more employees, 26 weeks paid leave for up to two surviving children.
- 18Tamil Nadu Shops and Establishments Act, 1947ப.30
The Shops and Establishments Act, 1947 covers hours, overtime, weekly holidays, leave, first aid and seating. 19,122 inspections in 2025-26.
- 19five hectares or moreப.34
Definition to memorise: land of five hectares or more under tea, coffee, rubber, cinchona or cardamom is a plantation.
- 20Ooty, Coonoor, Kothagiri, Gudalur, Valparaiப.34
Assistant Commissioners of Labour (Plantations) sit at Ooty, Coonoor, Kothagiri, Gudalur, Valparai, Yercaud, Batlagundu and Nagercoil.
- 21233 violations, resulting in the rescue of 50ப.42
Child labour enforcement 2025-26: 233 violations, 50 children and 297 adolescent labourers rescued, fines of Rs.16.28 lakh.
- 22The Legal Metrology Act, 2009 establishesப.48
Legal Metrology is the department's consumer-protection arm: uniform weights and measures, verification and stamping of instruments used in trade.
- 23Rs.69.99 crore was collectedப.49
Stamping fees under the Legal Metrology Act brought Rs.69.99 crore in 2025-26 - the department's largest single receipt.
- 24Occupational Safety, Health and Workingப.53
Labour-code mapping: Factories/BOCW/Contract Labour/Inter-State Migrant Acts fold into the OSH Code 2020; the four wage Acts into the Code on Wages 2019; Gratuity and Maternity Benefit into the Code on Social Security 2020.