Workers to get unique number: 

Workers to get unique number:

Context:

• Unique identification number.

What is the in news?

• The Union Minister for Labour and Employment said that every worker in the unorganized and organized sector will get a unique identification number.
• This will make it easier for them to get benefits under different social schemes.
• The government is planning to compress 44 labour laws into four codes – Wages, industrial relations, social security; and for occupational safety, health, and working conditions.

Why is it important?

• It will benefit more than 40 crore workers of the unorganized sector.
• Providing unique identification number was a part of the labour reforms of the current government.
• All the prominent labour unions have been invited for consultations on labour reforms.

Why is there skepticism about the implementation?

• The government has sufficient data about the 4.15 crore subscribers of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation.
• It has been unable to allot unique numbers to all of them.
• The actual number of workers in the unorganized is not concrete.