{"id":7893,"date":"2020-05-13T17:43:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T12:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2020-05-13T17:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T12:13:56","slug":"protection-for-inter-state-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/protection-for-inter-state-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Protection for inter-State workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Governance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.jagranjosh.com\/imported\/images\/E\/GK\/migrant-workers-protection-law-of-1979.jpg\" alt=\"What is the Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act of 1979?\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 Activists are demanding strict implementation of the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979 to ensure the welfare of inter-State migrants who are suffering due to the nationwide lockdown.<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drishtiias.com\/images\/uploads\/1570184510_image3.jpg\" alt=\"Human Migration in India\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>The Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act, 1979 seeks to regulate the employment of inter-State migrants and their conditions of service.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is applicable to every establishment and contractor that employs five or more migrant workmen from other States; or if it had employed five or more such workmen on any day in the preceding 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The principal employer is prohibited from employing inter-State workmen without a certificate of registration from the relevant authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Every contractor who recruits workmen from one State for deployment in another State should obtain a license to do so. As part of the licensing process, contractors are bound by certain conditions like committing them to provide terms and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In no case, shall the wages be lower than what is prescribed under the Minimum Wages Act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Governance Why in news? \u2022 Activists are demanding strict implementation of the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7894,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions\/7894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}