Scheme for ensuring regular employment of unprotected workers

Scheme for ensuring regular employment of unprotected workers.—

1. (1) For the purpose of ensuring an adequate supply and full and proper utilisation of unprotected workers in scheduled employments, and generally for making better provision for the terms and conditions of employment of unprotected workers, the State Government may by means of a Scheme provide for the registration of unprotected workers and employers in any scheduled employment or employments, and the regulation of the employment of unprotected workers, whether registered or not, in such employments.
2. (2) In particular, a Scheme may provide for all or any of the following matters, that is to say,—
   • (a) for the application of the Scheme to such classes of unprotected workers and employers, in such areas, and from such dates, as may be specified in the Scheme;
   • (b) for establishing or constituting a Board for any scheduled employment in any area;
   • (c) for regulating the recruitment and entry into the scheme of unprotected workers, and the registration of unprotected workers and employers, including the maintenance of registers, removal, either temporarily or permanently, of names from the registers, and the imposition of fees for registration;
   • (d) for regulating the employment of unprotected workers, whether registered or not, and the terms and conditions of such employment, including rates of wages, hours of work, maternity benefit, overtime payment, leave with wages, provision for gratuity and conditions as to weekly and other holidays and pay in respect thereof;
   • (e) for securing that, in respect of periods during which employment or full employment is not available to registered unprotected workers, they shall be paid such fall-back wages as may be specified;
   • (f) for prohibiting, restricting or otherwise controlling the employment of unprotected workers to whom the Scheme does not apply, and the employment of unprotected workers by employers to whom the Scheme does not apply;
   • (g) for the welfare of unprotected workers covered by the Scheme, including medical benefit, children's education, recreation, canteens, housing and such other amenities;
   • (h) for health and safety measures in places where the unprotected workers are engaged;
     • (i) for the constitution of any fund or funds, including provident fund, for the benefit of unprotected workers, the vesting of such funds, the payment and contribution to be made to such funds and all matters relating thereto;
   • (j) for the manner in which, and the person by whom, the cost of operating the Scheme is to be defrayed, including contributions to be made by employers and unprotected workers, and the manner of recovery of such contributions;
   • (k) for constituting or appointing persons or authorities, who are to be responsible for the administration of the Scheme;
   • (l) for such incidental and supplementary matters as may be necessary or expedient for giving effect to the purposes of a Scheme.