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The contract labour provisions of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020…

Under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, the contract labour provisions apply to an establishment or contractor employing fifty or more…

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The contract labour provisions of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 will be applicable to which complete set of the following establishments or contractor:

Establishment X has 47 female employees since the last two years as contract labours for making papers.
Establishment Y has 51 female employees since the last two years as contract labours for making papers.
Establishment Z hires 51 female employees as contract labours for 59 days in the preceding year for destroying papers after Exams in NLUs.
Contractor A hires 51 female employees as contract labours for a seasonal work of preparing a sweet dish called Ghevar on occasion of Raksha Bandhan in the month of August.

Assume the following: Apply the Code as enacted by Parliament, with no notification or State amendment altering the threshold for its contract labour provisions. The stated contract-labour headcounts are exhaustive: X has never employed fifty or more contract labourers on any day in the preceding twelve months, while Y continuously employs the stated fifty-one contract labourers. X and Y perform regular, continuous paper-making work. Z performs only the stated intermittent paper-destruction work, for a total of fifty-nine days in the preceding twelve months, and performs no other work. The establishment served by Contractor A performs only the stated seasonal Ghevar work. Contractor A supplies contract labour exclusively to that establishment and has no other establishments, assignments or contract-labour employment. The appropriate Government has decided that the work of Z and of the establishment served by Contractor A is of an intermittent nature for the purposes of the Code's exclusion of establishments in which work only of an intermittent or casual nature is performed.

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Under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, the contract labour provisions apply to an establishment or contractor employing fifty or more contract labour on any day of the preceding twelve months, but not to establishments in which work only of an intermittent or casual nature is performed. Y continuously employs enough contract labourers to meet that threshold. X is below it, while the intermittent and seasonal work of Z and of the establishment served by Contractor A falls within the exclusion (formerly section 1(4) and (5) of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, which used a threshold of twenty).

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