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The Telangana Muttah, Jattu, Hamal and other Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Welfare) Act, 1976

The Telangana Muttah, Jattu, Hamal and other Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Welfare) Act, 1976

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This Act regulates the employment, working conditions, and welfare of unprotected manual workers engaged in heavy physical labor, such as loading, unloading, packing, and carrying goods across various commercial markets and industrial sectors in Telangana. It applies to manual laborers, contractors, and principal employers operating within scheduled employments, including agricultural markets, grocery establishments, docks, timber yards, and transport hubs. By creating tripartite administrative Boards comprising representatives of workers, employers, and the state government, the legislation ensures worker registration, guarantees minimum wages during lean periods, enforces safety measures, prohibits child labor, and extends vital statutory protections like maternity benefits and accident compensation to vulnerable, unorganized workers.

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  1. 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
  2. 2. Definitions.
  3. 3. Schemes for ensuring regular employment of unprotected Workers.
  4. 4. Making variation and revocation of scheme.
  5. 5. Disputes regarding application of scheme.
  6. 6. Establishment of Board.
  7. 7. Powers and duties of Board.
  8. 8. Accounts and audits.
  9. 9. Disqualifications and removal of members of a Board.
  10. 10. Resignation of office by member.
  11. 11. Vacancy to be filled as early as possible.
  12. 12. Validity of proceedings of Board.
  13. 13. Recovery of monies due to Board.
  14. 14. Advisory Committee.
  15. 15. Inspectors and their powers.
  16. 16. Prohibition of employment of children.
  17. 17. Cognizance of offences.
  18. 18. Application of Workmen’s Compensation Act to unprotected workers.
  19. 19. Application of payment of Wages Act, 1936 to workers.
  20. 20. Application of Maternity Benefit Act to unprotected women workers.
  21. 21. Right and privileges under other laws not affected in certain cases.
  22. 22. Exemption.
  23. 23. Enquiry into working of Board.
  24. 24. Supersession of the Board.
  25. 25. Contracting out.
  26. 26. Amendment of Schedule.
  27. 27. General penalty for offences.
  28. 28. Power to make rules.
  29. 29. Savings.
  30. 30. Repeal of Ordinance 15 of 1976.
  31. THE SCHEDULE. [See section 2 (12)]

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