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🔆Rumours of migrant workers being assaulted in Tamil Nadu have triggered concern among manufacturers in the state.
📍What is the legal framework for migrant welfare?
✅The Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act, 1979 looks into the welfare of the labourers.
✅The Act mandates that the establishment which proposes to employ migrant workers be required to be registered with destination states.
✅Contractors will also have to obtain a licence from the concerned authority of the home states as well as the host states.
However, in practice, this Act has not been fully implemented.
📍This Act has been subsumed into the four broad labour codes notified by the Centre:
✅The Code on Wages, 2019;
✅The Industrial Relations Code, 2020;
✅The Code on Social Security, 2020; and
✅The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020.
These have not been implemented yet.
Also, the registration under the inter-state migrant workers’ act is negligible
📍What is the legal framework for migrant welfare?
✅The Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act, 1979 looks into the welfare of the labourers.
✅The Act mandates that the establishment which proposes to employ migrant workers be required to be registered with destination states.
✅Contractors will also have to obtain a licence from the concerned authority of the home states as well as the host states.
However, in practice, this Act has not been fully implemented.
📍This Act has been subsumed into the four broad labour codes notified by the Centre:
✅The Code on Wages, 2019;
✅The Industrial Relations Code, 2020;
✅The Code on Social Security, 2020; and
✅The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020.
These have not been implemented yet.
Also, the registration under the inter-state migrant workers’ act is negligible