Parliament today passed a bill for widening the definition of employees for the purpose of receiving gratuity, which will benefit over 60 lakh teachers.
The proposed bill may take into account broadening the scope of gratuity benefits to cover contract labour, unorganised labour, seasonal labour and farm labour among others, the Minister of State for Labour Harish Rawat assured the Rajya Sabha members on Friday. “We are discussing this with the stakeholders,” he added.
The Minister was responding to clarifications sought by members on the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2009. The Bill that widens the definition of employees for the purpose of receiving gratuity, will benefit over 60 lakh teachers. It covers teachers in private institutions with retrospective effect from April 3, 1997.
It was approved by Lok Sabha on December 16.
He also said the government would try to bring before Parliament another amendment in the bill during the next session for raising the current ceiling from Rs 3.50 lakh.
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