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NITI Aayog forms a sub-group to prepare a National Action Plan for Migrant Workers. The Central Government enacts the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020. This Code replaces the Inter-state Migrant Workmen Act, 1979. The Code applies to every establishment with ten or more inter-state migrant workers employed on any day of the preceding twelve months. The Code provides decent working conditions, minimum wages, grievances redressal mechanisms, and social security to all workers.
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Ministry of Labour & Employment
Posted On: 08 FEB 2021 5:44PM by PIB Delhi
NITI Aayog has constituted a sub-group to prepare a National Action Plan for Migrant Workers. The sub-group comprises the members from various Ministries of Govt. of India, subject experts, NGOs and civil society organisations, to prepare a tangible action plan to address issues related to migrant workers.
In order to safeguard the interest of the migrant workers, the Central Government had enacted the Inter-state Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979. This Act has now been subsumed in the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 and the Code has been notified on 29.09.2020. The above mentioned code, commonly known as OSH Code, provides for decent working conditions, minimum wages, grievances redressal mechanisms, protection from abuse and exploitation, enhancement of the skills and social security to all category of organised and unorganised workers including Migrant workers.
The Code is applicable to every establishment in which 10 or more inter-state migrant workers are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding 12 months.
This information was given by Minister of State (I/C) for Labour & Employment Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
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(Release ID: 1696232)
