Government of Jharkhand Introduced Bill Against Placement Agencies

Government of Jharkhand Introduced Bill Against Placement Agencies, The Government of Jharkhand headed by Chief Minister Raghubar Das has introduced a bill named ‘Jharkhand Nizi Niyozan Abhikaran and Gharelu Kamgar (viniyam) vidheyak 2016 (Jharkhand private employment agency and domestic employee bill) against placement agencies to control those agencies from exploiting people in the name

of giving employment outside the state.

♦ Aim: to abolish human trafficking from Jharkhand and stop placement agencies from exploiting the job seekers.

Rules of new Bill

i. Placement Agencies (both, existing before notification as well as new agencies yet to start) are required to take license or registration certificate of the agency within 90 days of the notification of the act.

ii. Any placement agency without registration or license or involved in illegal human trafficking, would be sentenced to two years to jail or fined Rs 1 lakh or both.

iii. Those who violate rules under the act or disobey the conditions of registration proof certificate would get one year jail and Rs 20,000 fine or both.

iv. The placement agency cannot take money from the domestic workers and make available employment details and employment registration certificate within a week.The agencies cannot employ people below the age of 18 year

iv. It should keep the details of every employee with proper regulation of minimum wage, eight hours duty and double the wage on doing overtime and leave as per the rule.

v. The placement agency should also ensure the wages are deposited in the bank account of the employee.