Under section 60 of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, in case of a…

Section 60 of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 lists the duties of every contractor or employer of an establishment employing inter-State migrant workers: (i) to ensure suitable conditions of work, keeping in mind that the worker is working in a State other than his own; (ii) in case of a fatal accident or serious bodily injury, to report to the specified authorities of both the States and also to the next of kin of the worker; and (iii) to extend to him all benefits available to other workers of the establishment, including employees' state insurance and provident fund benefits, and the medical check-up facility. Reporting only to one State's authority, or only to the next of kin, falls short of clause (ii).

Under s.61, the employer must also pay every inter-State migrant worker, once a year, a lump sum fare for the to-and-fro journey to his native place. Part II of Chapter XI does not reproduce the former requirement that the contractor issue each worker a passbook carrying his photograph (formerly s.12(1)(b) of the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979).