IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. ______ OF 2006
IN THE MATTER OF: - |
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE FOR CENTRAL
LEGISLATION ON CONSTRUCTION LABOUR (NCC-CL)
THROUGH ITS CO-ORDINATOR,
SUBASH BHATNAGAR,
B-19, SUBHAVANA NIKETAN,
PRITAM PURA, |
| DELHI-34. |
…PETITIONER |
| VERSUS |
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(h) make provision and improvement of such other welfare measures and facilities as may be prescribed.
2. The Board may grant loan or subsidy to a local authority or an employer in aid of any scheme approved by the State Government for the purpose connected with the welfare of building workers in any establishment.
3. The Board may pay annually grants-in-aid to a local authority or to an employer who provides to the satisfaction of the Board welfare measures and facilities of the standard specified by the Board for the benefit of the building workers and the members of their family, so, however, that the amount payable as grant-in-aid to any local authority or employer shall not exceed -- (a) The amount spent in providing welfare measures and facilities as determined by the State Government or any person specified by it in this behalf, or (b) Such amount as may be prescribed, whichever is less. Provided that no grant-in-aid shall be payable in respect of any such welfare measures and facilities where the amount spent thereon determined as aforesaid is less than the amount prescribed in this behalf.” |
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Under Section 24 of the said Act, the State Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board is to constitute a fund to credit any grants and loan made to the Board by the Central Government, all contribution made by the beneficiary and all some received by the board from other sources as may be decided by the Central Govt. The funds credited is to meet the expenses of the board to discharge its functions under Section 22 of the said Act, for salary and allowances of the members and employees of the board and meet expenses on objects and for purposes authorized under the said Act. |
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Chapter VI deals with hours of work, welfare measures and other conditions of service. Under Section 28 of the said Act, the appropriate Government are required to frame rules, the number of hours of work inclusive of one or more specified intervals, provide for a day of rest, for every period of seven days and to provide payment of work on a day of rest and not less than the overtime rate as specified in under Section 29 of the said Act. |
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Welfare measures like providing Child-care facilities relieve working mothers on site of anxiety over the safety and welfare of their children. Welfare facilities like the above and others improve the morale and consequently improve the efficiency. |
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Under Section 29 of the said Act, any building worker is entitled to wages twice his ordinary rate of wages when he is required to work on any day in excess of the number of hours constituting a normal working day. The ordinary rate of wages means the basic wages + allowances but does not include any bonus. |
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Under Section 30 of the said Act, it is mandatory for every employer to maintain register and record giving particulars of building workers employed by him, the work |
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