Skip to content

CS Executive · Setting Up of Business, Industrial and Labour Laws · Evaluation of Labour Legislation and need of Labour Code

A principal employer, Bharat Logistics Ltd, Nagpur, faces a sudden increase in volume of work in a core activity that must be finished within a specified time. Under Section 57 of the OSH Code, 2020, what is the legal position on engaging contract labour for it?

Engagement is permitted. Section 57(1) of the OSH Code, 2020 prohibits contract labour in core activities, but its proviso allows a principal employer to engage it for a sudden increase in volume of work in the core activity that must be accomplished in a specified time.

  1. AIt is permitted, because such a sudden increase is one of the stated exceptions to the prohibitionCorrect
  2. BIt is prohibited, because no exception exists for core activities
  3. CIt is permitted only if the activity is ordinarily done by full-time workers
  4. DIt is permitted only after a trade union registers under Section 84

Explanation

Section 57(1) prohibits contract labour in core activities but the proviso allows it where there is a sudden increase of volume of work in the core activity that needs to be accomplished in a specified time. The union registration condition is unrelated, and the full-time workers condition is not stated.

Did you get it right without looking?

One question tells you little. A timed set on Evaluation of Labour Legislation and need of Labour Code shows your real accuracy, how long you take and where you lose marks.

Practise Evaluation of Labour Legislation and need of Labour CodeFree diagnostic mock

More Evaluation of Labour Legislation and need of Labour Code questions