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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.
