Laws Relating to Employment

Our operations are subject to compliance with certain additional labor and employment laws in India. These
include, but are not limited to, the following:

the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970;

the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952;
the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948;

the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976*;

the Factories Act, 1948;

the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961;

the Minimum Wages Act*;

the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965*;

the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972;

the Payment of Wages Act, 1936*;

the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013;
the Code on Wages, 2019*;

the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020**;
the Industrial Relations Code, 2020***

the Code on Social Security, 2020****; and

the shops and establishments legislations of various States.

“The Gol enacted ‘The Code on Wages, 2019’ which received the assent of the President of India on August 8,
2019. While it proposes to subsume four separate legislations, namely, the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, the
Minimum Wages Act, the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 and the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976, it has not yet been
completely notified.

“The Gol enacted ‘The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020’ which received the
assent of the President of India on September 28, 2020. While it proposes to subsume several separate
legislations, including the Factories Act, 1948, the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, the
Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979 and the
Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996, it
has not yet been completely notified.

***The Gol enacted ‘The Industrial Relations Code, 2020’ which received the assent of the President of India
on September 28, 2020. While it proposes to subsume three separate legislations, namely, the Industrial
Disputes Act, 1947, the Trade Unions Act, 1926 and the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946, it
has not yet been completely notified.

“““The Gol enacted ‘The Code on Social Security, 2020’ which received the assent of the President of India on
September 28, 2020. While it proposes to subsume several separate legislations, including the Employee’s
Compensation Act, 1923, the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948, the Employees’ Provident Funds and
Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, the Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act,
1959, the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, the Building and Other Construction
Workers’ Welfare Cess Act, 1996 and the Unorganized Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008, it has not yet been
completely notified.

Safety and Environmental Laws

Our operations are also subject to certain safety and environmental legislations, including but not limited to the
following:

Environment (Protection) Act, 1986;

Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981

Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974

Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016
Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991

Factories Act, 1948

Goa, Daman and Diu Village Panchayat (Regulation of Building) Rules, 1971

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