Delhi HC issues notice to city labour commissioner
The Delhi High Court today issued notice to the city government's labour commissioner on a petition alleging that the workers' welfare board is virtually non-functional. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna directed the labour commissioner to appear before it on July 27.
The court was hearing a PIL filed by a construction workers' union, alleging that workers at various sites were not getting minimum wage by the contractors and the principal employers like DMRC, MCD, DDA, PWD and DIAL have failed to take any action against them for violating the Building And Other Construction Workers' Welfare Cess Act and also Minimum Wages Act. Earlier, the court has directed the principal employers to collect the name and addresses of the workers and register them so that they could avail the benefits including the medical facilities prescribed under the law. Read More
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