Under Section 83 of the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the "worker re-skilling fund" is financed, among other sources, by an employer's contribution equal to how many days' wages last drawn by each retrenched worker, and within how many days must this amount be credited to the worker's account? 

Section 83(2)(a) of the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 provides that the worker re-skilling fund shall consist of the contribution of the employer of an industrial establishment, of an amount equal to fifteen days' wages last drawn by the worker immediately before retrenchment (or such other number of days as may be notified by the Central Government), for every retrenched worker. Section 83(3) mandates that the fund be utilised by crediting this fifteen days' wages amount to the retrenched worker's account within forty-five days of such retrenchment, in the prescribed manner. This is a novel welfare mechanism, entirely absent from the erstwhile Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, designed to support retrenched workers financially while they seek re-skilling and re-employment opportunities, and operates over and above the standard retrenchment compensation of fifteen days' average pay per completed year of service.