the plantation labour act , 1951

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1. MAHATMA GANDHI CENTRAL UNIVERSITY, BIHAR
Labour Legislation And Administration
PresentationON
The Plantation Labour Act, 1951
Chandan Kumar Gupta (MGMT4014)
Lakshya Arya (MGMT4019)
Nitesh kumar(MGMT4025)
Abhishek kumar(MGMT4004)
PRESENTED BY
Dr. Alka Lalhall
(Assistant Professor)
FACULTY GUIDE
Department Of Management Sciences January 2023

2. The Plantation Labour Act, 1951
•Thisisanacttoprovideforthewelfareoflabour,andtoregulatetheconditionof
work,inplantations.
•Itcameintoactfrom2
nd
November1951.
•ItextendstothewholeofIndiaexceptJ&K.
Itappliestothefollowingplantation:-
•Toanylandusedorintendedtobeusedforgrowingtea,coffee,rubber,[cinchonaor
cardamom],oranyotherplantwhichmeasures5hectaresormoreandinwhich15
ormorepersonsareemployedorwereemployedonanydayofthepreceding12
months.

3. Some Definitions In This Act
•Adolescent:-means a person who has completed his [fourteenth] year but has not
completed his eighteenth year.
•Adult:-means a person who has completed his eighteenth year.
•Child:-means a person who has not completed his [fourteenth] year.
•Day:-means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight.
•Plantation:-means any plantation to which this Act, whether wholly or in part applies
and includes offices, hospitals, dispensaries, schools, and any other premises used for
any purpose connected with such plantation.

4. Cont…
•Worker:-means a person employed in a plantation for hire or reward, whether
directly or through any agency, to do any work skilled, unskilled, manual or
clerical, having wages less than Rs. 750/-p.m. but does not include:-
•medical officer, managerial staff and temporary workers employed
in any work relating to construction, repair, maintenance of roads,
bridge, etc.

5. Registration of plantations
•Section 3-A of this Act, the registering officer shall appointed by the State
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,-
•Section 3-B of the PLANTATION, 1951 makes it compulsory for every employer
of a plantation to register it within sixty days of its coming into existence.

6. Inspecting Staff
•Under Section’4’ of this Act, the state government has the power to appoint for the
state a duly qualified person to be -the chief inspector of plantations and other persons
to, be inspectors subordinate to the chief inspector.
Power and functions of Inspectors [Sections 5&6]
•to examine and make inquiries to ascertain whether the provisions of this Act are being
observed in any plantation.
•can enter, inspect and examine with assistants any part of plantation at any reasonable
time and take statements on any person, provided that no person shall be compelled to
answer any question or make any statement tending to incriminate himself.

7. PROVISIONS AS TO HEALTH
•Drinking Water:In every plantation effective arrangements shall be made by
the employer to provide and maintain at convenient place a sufficient -supply of
wholesome drinking water for all workers [Section 8].
•Conservancy:There shall be a sufficient number of conveniently situated &
accessible separate latrines and urinals for males and females in every plantation.
All of these are to be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition [section g].

8. Cont…
•Medical facilities:Medical facilities for workers and their families (as prescribed
by the state government) have to be maintained and made available by the
Employer [Section 10].
•In the absence of such prescribed medical facilities, the Chief Inspector
can arrange for provision-and maintenance of medical facilities and
recover the costs of these from the defaulting employer.[Actual
Recovery of such costs will be done by the Collector as arrear of Land Revenue
on Chief Inspectors' certification].

9. welfare
•Canteens:Under Section 11, the State Government has been empowered to
ask Employers to open Canteen(s) in Plantations employing one hundred and fifty
workers or more and to make rules for the working and maintenance of
canteens.
•There is also a provision for the constitution of a managing committee
in which the workers are represented.
•Creches:The employer must provide and maintain suitable rooms for children
where the number of workers is more than fifty or the number of children of
women workers is twenty or more [Section 12].

10. Cont…
•Creches are to be maintained in a clean, safe and sanitary conditions and are to
be run by a woman trained n the care of children and infants as per the law.
•Recreational facilities:every employer to make provision in the Plantation for
recreational facilities for the workers and their children [Section 13].
•Educational facilities:In every Plantation where the children-of the workers
between the ages of six and twelve exceed the number twenty five, the employer
is under obligation to provide educational facilities as may be specified by the
State Government [Section 14].

11. Cont…
•Housing facilities:[Section 15].
•It shall be the duty of every employer to provide and maintain necessary housing
accommodation-
•For every worker (including his family) residing in the plantation;
•For every worker (including his family) residing outside the plantation, who has put in
six months of continuous service in such plantation and who has expressed a desire
in writing to reside in the plantation:

12. Cont…
•Provided that the requirement of continuous service of six months under this
clause shall not apply to a worker who is a member of the family, of a deceased
worker who, immediately before his death, was residing in the plantation.
•Welfare Officers:In plantations that empl0y three hundred workers or more,
the employer has to employ welfare officers as prescribed [Section 18].

13. Hours and Limitation of Employment
•Weekly hours:forty-eight hours a week for Adult workers and twenty seven
hours a week for adolescent or child workers [Section 19].
•No Night for women and children:Women and children can be employed
only between the hours of 6am and 7pm unless permitted by the State
Government [Section 25].

14. Annual leave with wages(section30-31)
(1)Every worker shall be allowed leave with wages for a number of days calculated
at the rate of.
•If an adult, one day for every twenty days of work performed by, him, and
•If a young person, one day for every fifteen days of work performed by him.
Notice of Accidents:The Employers are under obligation to maintain a register
of accidents and notify the authorities of any accident where a plantation Worker
suffers death or body injury and he is unable to report for work for forty eight
hours or more [Section 32].

15. Penalties and Procedure
•violation of the provisions is a fine of Rs.500 and/or 3 months imprisonment.
•Subsequent / Continued violation of PLA is punishable by a Fine of Rs. 1000P
and/or imprisonment of Six months.