The Rajya Sabha has passed the Labour Laws Amendment Bill, 2011. The bill seeks to provide for maintenance of registers and returns in computer and computer floppy. Piloting the bill, Labour Minister Bangaru Dattatreya said it will safeguard the interests of labourers and bring about transparency and accountability in their recruitment process.

Basavaraj Patil of BJP said the bill will fulfil the long-standing demand of wage revision of the labourers. Opposing the move, Madhusudhan Mistry of the Congress said that the bill will create more complexities and will safeguard only the interests of the recruiters and industrialists. Not satisfied with the move, the Left parties staged a walked out.