Bare Act
The Gujarat Unprotected Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Welfare) Act, 1979
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This Act provides a legal framework to protect manual workers in Gujarat who fall outside the scope of major labor laws like the Factories Act or the Mines Act. It establishes a system of "Schemes" and "Boards" to regulate the employment, registration, and welfare of these workers. By mandating the registration of both employers and workers, the Act ensures fair wages, safe working conditions, and access to benefits like gratuity and medical care. It essentially formalizes the informal labor sector, ensuring that vulnerable manual laborers receive the same basic protections and oversight as their counterparts in organized industries.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Scheme for ensuring regular employment of unprotected workers
- 4. Making, variation and revocation of scheme
- 5. Disputes regarding application of scheme
- 6. Constitution of Board
- 7. Powers and duties of Board
- 8. Accounts and audit
- 9. Disqualification and removal
- 10. Resignation of office by member
- 11. Vacancy to be filled as early as possible
- 12. Proceedings of Board not to be invalidated by vacancies etc
- 13. Advisory Committee
- 14. Power of Government to constitute Advisory Committee
- 15. Allowance of members
- 16. Inspectors
- 17. Prohibition of employment of unprotected worker
- 18. Cognizance of offences
- 19. Recovery by way of penalty
- 20. Recovery of sums due
- 21. Protection of action taken under Act
- 22. Power to make rules
- 23. Power to remove difficulties
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