Explanation:

Consideration of demands of trade unions and making of further improvement in the benefits available to workers by the Government is a continuous process. The contractual workers working in establishments having ten or more workmen avail social security and other benefits under the Employees’ Compensation Act (1923), the Employees’ State Insurance Act (1948), the Industrial Dispute Act (1947), the Minimum Wages Act (1948), the Provident Funds Act (1925), the Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act (1952), the Maternity Benefit Act (1961), the Payment of Gratuity Act (1972), etc. Further, it has been the constant endeavor of the Government to ensure that the unorganized workers, including contractual workers engaged in establishments having less than ten workers, get social security benefits as available to the workers in the organized sector. With this objective, the Government is implementing the Un organised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008. The 2008 Act stipulates formulation of suitable welfare schemes for unorganized workers on matters relating to life and disability cover, health and maternity benefits, old age protection.