Thank You for your valuable suggestions. Appreciated!. The first contractor is not willing to raise bills so how can principal employer make payment?
From India, Thana
From India, Thana
So pay the workers directly now.
What stops you from doing that ?
Workers need to be paid for the previous periods. You are torturing them by not paying them. It's inhuman.
Though in general we do not recommend payment of salary directly by principal employer, but in this case you can do it.
As soon as it is done, you should raise a claim on the contractor and issue a legal notice to him for recovery of the money. Then automatically he will come in line.
Even if he does not bother, the fact that you are taking legal action shows that you did this for sake of workers and not because you have control on workers.
The contract labour act provides for you to pay the salary and recover as debt from the contractor
From India, Mumbai
2383What stops you from doing that ?
Workers need to be paid for the previous periods. You are torturing them by not paying them. It's inhuman.
Though in general we do not recommend payment of salary directly by principal employer, but in this case you can do it.
As soon as it is done, you should raise a claim on the contractor and issue a legal notice to him for recovery of the money. Then automatically he will come in line.
Even if he does not bother, the fact that you are taking legal action shows that you did this for sake of workers and not because you have control on workers.
The contract labour act provides for you to pay the salary and recover as debt from the contractor
From India, Mumbai
It does not matter whether the first contractor is not raising bills or not. The Principle Employer can pay wages directly to the Contractor's workers and debit the amount of wages together with dues on his account. Statutory Dues can also be deposited through Principle Employer's log-in Id and password, by selecting option " through contractor" etc. This will certainly absolve the responsibility of Principle Employer.
From India, Kolhapur
From India, Kolhapur
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