The Contract Labour Act

The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act & Rules, 1971 – Revision of

wages to the contract labour under the Act & Rules – Applicability of Variable

Dearness Allowance to the basic wage for every six months on par with the

workers covered under the Scheduled Employments notified under the

Minimum Wages Act, 1948 – Amendment – Orders – Issued.

The Government have issued orders under the provision contained under clause (d) of Section 2 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 and rule 25 (v) (b) of the Andhra Pradesh Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Rules, 1971, empowering the Commissioner of Labour who was appointed as competent authority under the former Act, to apply the CPI points raised for every six months to the contract workers also who are drawing wages notified under the Contract Labour (Regulation &Abolition) Act, 1970, instead of adding the points raised at a time, at the time of revision and the revision be taken up for every five years as in the case of scheduled employments in Part-I under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.

2. The Commissioner of Labour, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad in his letter

2nd read above, has reported that a separate Notification under the Contract

Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1971 declaring the CPI points for every

six months to the contract labour as was done in the case of the Scheduled

Employments under the Schedule of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 results

in further delay causing under hardship to the contract labour in receiving

the cost of living allowance and he has, therefore, requested the

Government to Issue necessary orders to amend the G.O.Rt.No.1337,

Labour Employment Training & Factories (Lab.II) Department,

Dt.27.11.2010 to the extent that the CPI points notified by the

Commissioner of Labour under clause (d) of section 2 and sub-section (2) of

section 4 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 for drawing the Variable

Dearness Allowance by the workers covered under the Scheduled

Employments notified under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 are also

applicable to the wages notified by the Government to contract labour vide

G.O.Ms.No.11, Labour Employment Training & Factories (Lab.II)

Department, dt.17.01.2012.

3. The Government, after careful examination of the matter, hereby issue

the following Amendment to para (3) of the orders issued G.O.Rt.No.1337,

Labour Employment Training & Factories (Lab.II) Department,

Dt.27.11.2010.

AMENDMENT

In the said order, in para (3), for the words, “the CPI points raised for

every six months to the contract workers also who are drawing wages

notified under the Contract Labour (Regulation &Abolition) Act, 1970,

instead of adding the points raised at a time, at the time of revision and

the revision be taken up for every five years as in the case of scheduled

employments in Part-I under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948,” the words

“the CPI points notified by the Commissioner of Labour for every six

months i.e. 1st April and 1st October under clause (d) of section 2 and

sub-section (2) of section 4 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 for

drawing the Variable Dearness Allowance by the workers covered under

the Scheduled Employments notified in the Schedule of the Minimum

Wages Act, 1948 are also applicable to the wages notified by the

Government / Competent Authority to contract labour and revision of

wages shall be taken up once in five years” shall be substituted.