The ex-Haryana CM and the head of the INLD, Om Prakash Chautala, disapproved of the Haryana government’s law requiring a 75% reservation for residents of the private sector. While the Haryana State Local Candidate Employment Bill was initially passed by the State Assembly on November 5, 2020, Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya approved it on February 28. According to the notification issued by the State Department of Labor on November 6, this law covers corporations, corporations, trusts and partnerships and will come into force on January 15, 2022.

“It is not in accordance with the law. In this country, every citizen has the same rights regardless of the state to which he belongs. It cannot be changed,” noted Om Prakash Chautala. Incidentally, her grandson and Haryana MP Dushyant Chautala had spearheaded the demand for the aforementioned law to be enacted.

Here are the provisions of the new law:

• This law will cease to have effect at the expiration of a period of 10 years from the date of its entry into force.
• Each employer must register employees receiving a monthly salary not exceeding Rs 30,000 on the designated portal within three months of the entry into force of this law.
• Each employer must employ 75% of the local candidates in jobs where the monthly salary does not exceed 50,000 rupees.
• The employer has the option to restrict the recruitment of local candidates from any district to 10% of the total number of local candidates
• The employer may request exemption from these provisions if a sufficient number of local candidates with the desired skills and competencies are not available.
• The designated officer can either reject or accept this request or order the employer to train local candidates accordingly.
• While an employer must file a quarterly report on local candidates employed and appointed during the quarter, an authorized officer may make any order to comply with the objectives of this Act after reviewing that report.
• An employer aggrieved by the order of the designated officer or the authorized officer may appeal within 60 days
• The culprits will have to pay a fine ranging from Rs 10,000 to Rs 5,000,000 in addition to the imposition of a daily penalty until the contravention continues.
• No jurisdiction lower than that of a metropolitan magistrate or a first-class judicial magistrate can judge offenses punishable by this law.