Contractual Employment – Its Benefits to Employers A contract labour is a person who is hired in connection with the work of an establishment by the principal employer through a contractor. A contractor is a person who supplies human resource to a principal employer. The issue of contractual employment is discussed in two ways in this article, firstly, hiring labourers through contractors and secondly as per the fixed term contracts for employing human resources. With the increase in the globalization of business, there has been a gradual increase in the economic inter dependencies between several countries which has even led…
Author: Aniruddh Shastree
Contractual Employment – From an Employee’s perspective The point ‘contractual employment v/s permanent employees’ has been a point of debate since a long time in India, but it is drawing more attention towards itself in the present scenario because of the increased focus on industrialization. The point of contention that is attempted to discuss in this article is that, are there any positive aspects of contractual employment for the employees who undertake this type of employment. While employers prefer to have flexibility in workforce, workers prefer to have permanency status in employment. This situation arises often when employees are hired…
NEED FOR TAX FREE EPF AMOUNT IN ERA OF CONTRACT EMPLOYMENT: THE ROLL BACK IS A RIGHT DECISION *Aniruddh Shastree Contract workers constituted about one-fourth of all workers in formal manufacturing in India in 2008.(1)A total of 384 million persons are employed at various levels and out of the total employed 51% are self-employed, while 33.5% are engaged as casual labour and 15.6% are employed as regular wage or salaried employees as per 66th Round of NSSO, 2009-10. (2) Economic globalization is undermining economic development by driving many workers into low-paid, insecure jobs.(3) In the wake of rising insecurity of sustainability…
By Aniruddh Shastree aniruddh_shastree@yahoo.com.au The evolution of Indian labour legislation is obviously interlaced with the history of British colonialism. British political economy was considered natural paramount in modelling some of the early laws. In the initial phases it was very difficult to get adequate regular Indian workers to run British organizations and hence labour laws became essential. These were obviously in order to prote ct the interests of British bosses. Although this was a case, attitude of Indian legislators, as it turned towards being independent from the clutches of British empire, has been very constructive and pro-welfare state. The importance…
By Aniruddh Shastree aniruddh_shastree@yahoo.com.au Why can I call the Corporate Offices and Information Technology companies as Shops?: A Discussion on limits and extent of ‘shop’ with reference to “The Maharashtra Shops and Establishments Act, 1948”. The Maharashtra Shops and Establishments Act, 1948, is a legislation to regulate the conditions of work in shops and commercial establishments and have been in force in the State of Maharashtra since last 57 years. The first Shops Act was enacted in the year 1939. The Application of the Maharashtra Shops & Establishments Act 1948 is confined to municipal areas specified in schedule I and State…