Functions

• Maintenance of industrial peace.
• Enforcement of Labour Laws.
• Ensuring Minimum Wages to the workers. ·
• Settlement of industrial Disputes and Complaints.
• Publication of Awards/Judgments by Labour Courts.
• Providing compensation in case of fatal/non—fatal accidents on the job.
• Settlement of claim cases under Payment of Wages Act, Payment of Gratuity.
• Registration of Trade Unions.
• Certification of Standing Orders (Conditions of sen/ices for the workers).
• Regulation & Abolition of Contract Labour System.
• Registration of Shops & Commercial Establishments.
• Ensuring Equal Remuneration to female workers. ,
• Detect & Rescue child labour from all prohibited sectors.
• Identification, Release & Rehabilitation of Child Labour (NCLPs).
• Abolition of Bonded Labour System.
• Efficient collection and utilization of cess for the benefit of construction workers as well as providing of justice and social security to all sections of workers.
• Welfare of unorganized workers. .
• Compilation of Labour Statistics.

Objectives

The main objectives are:

• To ensure welfare of labourers
• To oversee increase in prosperity
• To create healthy and cordial industrial relations between the labourers and employers
• To mediate in industrial complaints/disputes and ensure industrial peace.
• To ensure welfare amenities to all sections of workers in organized and unorganized sectors through enforcement of various labour laws.
• To provide relief and due benefits to labourers through judicial work
• To eradicate child labour from the State of Assam.
• To enforce social security Acts including the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996 & the Unorganised Workers Social Security Act, 2008.
• To generate revenue for the state by receiving registration fee under different labour laws.