The Code on Social Security, 2020 Flashcards

A collection of vocabulary flashcards defining key terms and organizations as specified in The Code on Social Security, 2020.

Aggregator

A digital intermediary or a market place for a buyer or user of a service to connect with the seller or the service provider.

Appropriate Government

In relation to Central Government controlled industries, railways, mines, oil fields, or banking, it is the Central Government; in relation to any other establishment, it is the State Government.

Audio-visual production

Production produced wholly or partly in India including animation, digital production, feature films, television, web-based serials, and reality shows.

Building worker

A person employed to do skilled, semi-skilled, or unskilled manual, technical, or clerical work in construction; excludes those in managerial or administrative capacities.

Career centre

Any office or portal established by the Central Government for providing career services such as registration, collection, and furnishing of information for employers and job seekers.

Central Board

The Board of Trustees of the Employees’ Provident Fund constituted under section 4.

Commissioning mother

A biological mother who uses her egg to create an embryo implanted in any other woman.

Confinement

Labour resulting in the issue of a living child, or labour after $26$ weeks of pregnancy resulting in the issue of a child regardless of whether it is alive or dead.

Contract labour

A worker hired in connection with the work of an establishment through a contractor, including inter-State migrant workers.

Contribution

The sum of money payable by the employer to the Central Board and the Corporation, including any amount payable by or on behalf of the employee.

Corporation

The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation constituted under section 5.

Employee

A person employed on wages by an establishment (excluding apprentices under the Apprentices Act, 1961) to do any skilled, operational, administrative, or other work.

Employer

A person who employs one or more employees in their establishment; includes occupiers of factories, owners of mines, and contractors.

Employment injury

A personal injury to an employee caused by an accident or occupational disease arising out of and in the course of employment.

Establishment

A place where any industry, trade, manufacture, or occupation is carried on, including factories, mines, ports, and plantations.

Factory

Premises whereon $10$ or more employees work for a manufacturing process with the aid of power, or $20$ or more employees work without the aid of power.

Family

Relatives of an employee including a spouse, dependent minor children, dependent parents, and in certain cases, minor brothers or sisters.

Fixed term employment

The engagement of an employee on the basis of a written contract of employment for a fixed period.

Gig worker

A person who performs work and earns from activities outside of a traditional employer-employee relationship.

Home-based worker

A person engaged in the production of goods or services for an employer in their home or other premises of their choice for remuneration.

Inspector-cum-Facilitator

An officer appointed to advise employers and employees on compliance and to inspect establishments as assigned.

Inter-State migrant worker

A person recruited in one State for employment in another, or who has come from one State to another for employment, drawing wages not exceeding $18,000$ rupees per month.

Manufacturing process

Activities including altering, repairing, printing, generating power, or constructing ships for the purpose of use, sale, or disposal.

Maternity benefit

The payment referred to in section 60(1) for a woman's actual absence preceding and following delivery.

Occupational disease

A disease specified in the Third Schedule as being peculiar to the employment of the employee.

Occupier

The person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the factory, including directors in a company or individual partners in a firm.

Permanent partial disablement

Disablement of a permanent nature that reduces the earning capacity of an employee in every employment they were capable of at the time of the accident.

Permanent total disablement

Disablement of a permanent nature that incapacitates an employee for all work they were capable of performing at the time of the accident.

Platform work

A work arrangement outside a traditional relationship where online platforms are used to access specific services or solve problems in exchange for payment.

Social security

Protective measures for health care and income security in cases of old age, sickness, invalidity, work injury, maternity, or loss of a breadwinner.

Social Security Organisation

Organisations such as the EPF Central Board, ESIC, and various National and State Boards for unorganised or building workers.

Superannuation

The attainment by an employee of such age as fixed in the contract; for the purposes of Chapter III, this age is set at $58$ years.

Unorganised sector

An enterprise owned by individuals or self-employed workers where the number of workers employed is less than $10$.

Wages

All remuneration including basic pay, dearness allowance, and retaining allowance; excludes bonus, house-rent allowance, and employer contributions to pension funds.

Wage ceiling

The specific amount of wages notified by the Central Government for the purposes of becoming a member under Chapter III and Chapter IV.

Gratuity

A payment made to an employee on termination of employment after rendering continuous service for not less than $5$ years ($3$ years for working journalists).