Building & Other Construction Workers Act
An Act to regulate the employment and conditions of service of building and other construction workers and to provide for their safety, health and welfare measure and for other matter connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Applicability:
- Applicable to the whole of India.
- It applies to every establishment which employs, or had employed on any day of the preceding twelve months, 10 or more building workers in any building or other construction work.
- The construction contractor has to prepare and maintain all the applicable compliance registers as stipulated under the Central and State Rules.
- The principal employer is primarily liable to ensure if the construction Contractor has prepared and maintained all the required compliance registers, or else the end liability would fall upon the principal employer.
- The construction contractor and principal employer both has to file certain returns to the controlling authority within the due dates at prescribed intervals.