COSTRUCTION & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Assignment 4 – The Labor Contract Act 1970

SUBMITTED BY :
SUBMITTED TO : Aakriti Agrawal
Ar. Poonam Katre Deepanita Dash
Swapnil Jaiswal
 The Labor Contract Act 1970

Definition : An Act to regulate the employment of • To every contractor who employs or who
contract labor in certain establishments and to employed on any day of the preceding twelve
provide for its abolition in certain circumstances and months twenty or more workmen.
for matters connected therewith. • It shall not apply to establishments in which work
only of an intermittent or casual nature is
Aim : To prevent exploitation of contract labor and performed
also to introduce better conditions of work.
Seven chapters have been defined by the 2. Definitions:
Government that have to be followed at construction • Contract labour : A workman shall be deemed to
sites. be employed as "contract labor" in or in
connection with the work of an establishment
CHAPTER 1: PRELIMINARY when he is hired in or in connection with such
work by or through a contractor, with or without
1. The act applies to: the knowledge of the principal employer.
• The whole of India. • Contractor : Is a person who undertakes to
• Every establishment in which twenty or more produce a given result for the establishment,
workmen are employed or were employed on any other than a mere supply of goods or articles of
day of the preceding twelve months as contract manufacture to such establishment, through
labor . contract labor.

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• Establishment :
 Any office or department of the
Government or a local authority.
 Any place where any industry, trade,
business, manufacture or occupation is
carried on.
• Principal employer :
 In relation to any office or department of
the Government or a local authority, the
head of that office or department .
 In a factory, the owner or occupier of the
factory and where a person has been
named as the manager of the factory under
the Factories Act.
 In a mine, the owner or agent of the mine
and where a person has been named as the
manager of the mine.
 In any other establishment, any person
responsible for the supervision and control
of the establishment.
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• Workman : Is any person employed in or in
connection with the work of any establishment
to do any skilled, semi-skilled or un-skilled
manual, supervisory, technical or clerical work
for hire or reward, whether the terms of
employment be express or implied
CHAPTER 2: THE ADVISORY
BOARDS
S.NO. SECTIONS UNDER CHAPTER 2
3 Central Advisory Board
4 State Advisory Board
5 Power to constitute committees
The above sections talk about the role Centra and
state Advisory Contract Labour Board that is to
advice the Central Government and state
government on such matters arising out of the
administration of this Act