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Labour department inspection of IT office

Reported on October 13, 2010 from Chennai , Tamil Nadu  ι Report #30280

The Labour Department requires a dozen odd registers to be maintained some of them which are totally outdated and pointless.
E.g: Salary register, Attendance register, Leave register etc.

Our IT office has an electronic system that logs all entries/exits and leave taken. We have the records and offerred to provide it to them in a printout.

Salaries are paid electronically via bank transfer.

The officer declined and said it must be maintained in a manual register!

Finally an arrangement was made where we maintain a few records manually and the rest he would overlook.

Cost of arrangement Rs 1500 twice a year even if the officer shows up only once a year for the inspection!

He is supposed to inspect twice so expects to be paid even for the time he did not show up!

What is your reaction after reading this report?