Relevant laws

Laws

• The Minimum Wages Act, 1948

• EPF Act, 1952 (also see here).

• ESI Act, 1948

• The Contract Labour (Regulation And Abolution) Act, 1970

• The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947

  • The Buildings And Other Construction Workers (Regulation Of Employment And Conditions Of Service) Act, 1996

  • (The government maintained webpage is not very readable, so you may want to look here.)

• The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979

• The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976

  • The Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act, 2008 (also see here for rules).

Court Judgements

• • Liability of employee is on principal employer: Bombay High Court, 2013

  • (Case number, FA 1134 of 2012, can be found on The judgements information system via search query "CFA1707112")

  • For a non technical account, you can look at the following news articles:

  • Economic Times, MoneyLife, Indian Express (all the articles are essentially the same, following a PTI release).

Under Construction. TODO: explain the key provisions in relevance to IITK.