Employers will now have to provide a lump sum amount every year to each inter-state migrant employee, the draft labour rules (Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020) published by the Union labour ministry of state in Delhi. The employing establishments will have to pay for these workers to travel to their home state once every 12 months. The journey could be by train (not below Second Class Sleeper) or bus or other modes of transport. The condition for employees to avail this facility is that they should have worked for that particular establishment for at least six months in the preceding one year. The draft rules also mandate that companies will have to conduct annual health check-ups, free of cost, for every worker above the age of 45 at a factory, dock, mine, or building/other construction site. The rules also provide for a single electronic registration for licencing and filing annual integrated returns for an establishment. The law deals with the safety, health and working conditions of those working at docks, building or other construction sites, mines, as well as interstate workers, contract labourers, working journalists, audio-visual workers, and sales promotion employees. “After going through the objections and suggestions, the ministry will notify the rules to make the law operational,” said a ministry official, The draft rules also mandate that the labour ministry will set up a toll-free helpline number to address queries and grievances of inter-state migrant workers. This is the first time that provisions related to inter-state migrant workers have been included in the draft rules under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020. The move months after the migrant crisis unfolded following the imposition of the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown on 25 March.