EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK

Implementation of equal wages to contract workers working in permanent job

1820 . SHRI RAMACHANDRA KHUNTIA

(a)whether the Ministry is considering the proposal of equal wages to contract workers working in permanent job;

(b)if so, by when this proposal is going to be implemented by Government; and

(c)whether it is a fact that in other developed countries like USA, UK and Japan, the contract labour doing the equal job of regular employees even same time get more money per hour a day?

ANSWER

(SHRI KODIKUNNIL SURESH)

(a) & (b): Provisions already exist under the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Central Rules, 1971 under Rule 25 (2) (v) (a) that in cases where the workmen employed by the contractor perform the same or similar kind of work as the workmen directly employed by the principal employer of the establishment, the wage rates, holidays, hours of work etc. shall be the same as applicable to the workmen directly employed by the principal employer of the establishment on the same or similar kind of work.

(c): The wage rates of the contract workers in India are regulated as per the provisions of Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Central Rules, 1971 irrespective of the fact as to how the wages of the contract workers are fixed in developed countries.