The Cine-workers and Cinema Theatre Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1981
The Cine-workers and Cinema Theatre Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1981
This legislation provides for the regulation of the condition of employment of certain cine-workers and cinema theatre workers and measures of protection to them by imposing certain obligations on motion picture producers and theatre owners. The Act embodies certain laws to provide safeguards to low paid artistes and technicians engaged in the production of feature films with regard to their terms and conditions of employment, payment of wages and provision of other amenities.
The Cine-workers and Cinema Theatre Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1981 governs all cine-workers A cine-worker is an individual who is employed directly or through any contractor or other person in connection with the production of a feature film to work as an artiste and whose monthly remuneration with respect to certain employment is a sum of One Thousand Rupees per month and where such remuneration is by way of a lump sum, a sum of Five Thousand Rupees.
The provision of this Act requires that no person shall be employed as a cine-worker in or in connection with the production of a feature film without entering into an agreement in the prescribed form relating to the terms of the employment in the prescribed manner. Such agreement ought to be registered with the competent authority notified under the law by the producer of the film.
In case of any dispute regarding breach of the terms and conditions of the agreement, a cine-worker may approach the Conciliation Officer for mediation. The Conciliation Officer shall investigate the dispute and all matters affecting the merits and the right settlement and induce the parties to come to a fair and amicable settlement. Penalties are imposed in cases where the producer fails to register the agreement entered onto with a worker or when he takes work from a worker without executing an agreement.
