Under Section 6(1)(f) of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, an employer must issue a letter of appointment to every employee on his appointment, and where an employee had not been issued such a letter as on the commencement of the Code, it must be issued within how many months of such commencement?

Section 6(1)(f) of the OSH Code, 2020 casts a duty on every employer to issue a letter of appointment to every employee on his appointment, containing information in a form prescribed by the appropriate Government. Where an employee had not been issued such a letter as on commencement of the Code, the employer must issue it within three months of such commencement. Described in the Code's objects as aimed at "formalisation of employment," this duty applies universally to every covered establishment irrespective of worker count, covering permanent employees, fixed-term employees, and contract labour alike - addressing a long-standing gap where informal employment was common, particularly in the unorganised sector.