No reduction in wages should be done for stranded workers during this COVID-19 pandemic.
Globalization has created a situation which generated a worldwide phenomenon of migration of millions of workers to other countries. The migration of labour has created a totally unregulated labour market where finance capital will have its sway over the entire gamut of labour relations.
The Act makes it compulsory for the employers to formally define the conditions of employment and to make the said conditions known to the workmen employed by them.
This Act has been passed to make it a statuary obligation on the part of the employer to pay subsistence allowance to the employees during the period of their suspension. As per the provisions of this Act, the suspended employee is entitled to receive subsistence allowance at the rate of 50% of wages last drawn,prior to his suspension for the first 90 days.
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the regulation of conditions of work and employment in shops, commercial establishments, residential hotels, restaurants, eating houses, theatres, other places of public amusement or entertainment and other establishments.
An Act to provide for the payment of equal remuneration to men and women workers and for the prevention of discrimination, on the ground of sex, against women in the matter of employment and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
An Act to regulate the payment of wages of certain classes of persons with a view to ensuring that wages payable to employed persons covered by the Act were disbursed by the employers within the prescribed time limit and that no deductions other than those authorised by law were made by them.
An Act to provide for fixing minimum rates of wages in certain employments. Whereas it is expedient to provide for fixing minimum rates of wages in certain employments.
The act, applicable to intra-state migrants employed by a labour contractor, covers any establishment in which 20 or more workers are employed or were employed during the preceding 12 months as contractual labour.
Casual workers in Rengali Power Project of State of Orissa in their appeal claimed that they were entitled to equal wages on the same basis as paid to regular employees as they were discharging the same duties and functions.
The complaint made in the writ petitions is that there are a number of persons who are engaged by Nehru Yuvak Kendra as casual workers on daily wage basis and though they are doing the same work as is performed by Class IV employees appointed on regular basis, they are not being given the same salary and allowances as are being paid to Class IV employees.
This case was to emphasize that under Sub-section (4) to Section 21 Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, in case the contractor fails to make payment of wages within the prescribed period or makes short payment, then the principal employer shall be liable to make payment of wages.
Migrant workers were deprived of their legal dues and wages and faced with starvation they have returned to their home in despair.
The petitioner of this case Lok Adhikar Sangh submitted that the workers are not paid minimum wages which they are entitled under the Minimum Wages Act. This Special Civil Application in the nature of public interest litigation highlights the working conditions and payment of wages paid to the sugarcane harvesting workers in various sugar factories at South Gujarat.
The case was to get deserving wages to all contract labourers.
