Consider the following: 1. Hotels and restaurants 2. Motor transport undertakings 3. Newspaper establishments 4. Private medical institutions The employees of which of the above can have the ‘Social Security’ coverage under “Employees’ State Insurance Scheme’?

QUESTION

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Social Issues & Schemes

Prelims 2012

Consider the following:

Hotels and restaurants
Motor transport undertakings
Newspaper establishments
Private medical institutions

The employees of which of the above can have the ‘Social Security’ coverage under “Employees’ State Insurance Scheme’?

Select an option to attempt

Explanation

The Employees' State Insurance Act, of 1948 is social security legislation that provides for medical care and cash benefits in the contingencies of sickness, maternity, disablement, and death due to employment injury to workers

Coverage

The Act applies, in the first instance to non-seasonal factories employing 10 or more persons. The provisions of the Act are being extended area-wise by stages.
The Act contains an enabling provision under which the "appropriate government is empowered to extend the provisions of the Act to other classes of establishments - industrial, commercial, agricultural or otherwise.
Under these provisions most of the State Govts. have extended the provisions of the Act to new classes of establishments namely shops, hotels, restaurants, cinemas including preview theatres, road-motor transport undertakings, and newspaper establishments employing 20 or more coverable employees.

Hence, 1, 2, 3 and 4 all are correct.

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