Employment Injury - Accidents, Compensation & Benefits - Employers' obligations ,social security code
An Explainer - brief case laws & precedents The social securities available to workers/ employees for employment injury are manifold;their rights and the corresponding obligations by the employers/Employees' State Insurance Corporation ( ESI) has a complex nexus. Fair working knowledge is esssential for not only employers and employees, but every one, to ensure that the victim's family avail due benefits without much ordeal. This article endeavours to provide a brief perspective of such social security benefits under law. Currently the benefits are covered, inter alia, under the Employees' Compensation Act and ESI Act. The new code on Social Securities enacted recently (contemplated to be effective from April 2021, replaces the existing legislations with a comprehensive coverage. What is an employment injury? Under Section 3(1) of the Employees Compensation Act , 1923, if personal injury is caused to an employee by accident arising out of and in t