In your view, what are the most common blind spots organisations continue to overlook while engaging contract labour, and how do these gaps eventually translate into IR disruptions, Brand damage and trust deficit?
MT Legally, all the provisions of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (OSHWC Code) or the state Shops and Commercial Establishments Acts abouthealth, safety, welfare and working conditions and provisions relating to minimum wages and payment of wages are required to be extended to the workers of the contractors also. It is true that the responsibility that a contract labour will shoulder is always much lower than that borne by a regular worker. But the contract labour and the regular worker doing the same work are equally rated with regard to the fixation of wages.The responsibility factor cannot be put under the ambit of fixation of wages. Even though the responsibility of payment of bonus, social security contributions like ESI, EPF, etc., is on the contractor, ultimately, these payments by the...
