On September 18, at the ‘National Labour Day celebrations, the Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya announced a number of schemes that the government is going legislate on to safeguard wage payments and social security cover for contract workers and the un regulated labour sector.
Although relaxing labour legislation is one of the government’s primary labour market reform goals (c.f. article No. 9855), regulating the informal sector is no less of an objective. Bandaru Dattatreya announced a series of measures aimed at ensuring sub-contractor workers get paid. Although the Labour Contract Act already regulates workers’ pay it only applies to companies employing at least twenty staff and on top of this sub-contractors’ workers are considered as part of the unregulated labo
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