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CHAPTER VII Registers and Records and Collection of Statistics

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CHAPTER VII

Registers and Records and Collection of Statistics

74. Register of contractors:- Every principal employer shall maintain in respect of each registered establishment register of contractors in Form III.

75. Register of persons employed:- Every contractor shall maintain in respect of each registered establishment where he employed contract labour a register in Form XIII.

76. Employment Card:-

(i) Every contractor shall issue an Employment card in Form XIV to each worker within three days of the employment of the workers.
(ii) The Card shall be maintained up to date and any change in the particulars shall be entered therein.

 

77. Service certificate:-

On termination of employment for any reason whatsoever the contractor shall issue to the workman whose services have been terminated a service certificate in form XV.

78. Muster Roll, wages Register, Deduction Register and Overtime Register:-

1. in respect of establishment which are governed by the payment of wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936) and the rules made there under, or the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948) or the rules made there under, the following registers and records required to be maintained by the contractor as employer under those acts and the rules made there under shall be deemed to be registers and records to be maintained by the Contractor under these rules:-

(a) Muster Roll.
(b) Register of Wages.
(c) Register of deduction.
(d) Register of Overtime.
(e) Register of fines.
(f) Register of advances.

 

2. In respect of establishment not covered under sub-rules

(1) the following provisions shall apply, namely:-

(a)

Every Contractor shall maintain a Muster Roll Register Provided that a Combined muster roll-cum-wages Register in Form XVIII shall be maintained by the Contractor where the wages period is a fortnight or less.

(b) Where the wages period is one week or more the contract shall issue wage slip in Form XIX to the Workers at least a day prior to the disbursement of wages.
(c) Signature or thumb-impression of every worker on the Register of wages or wages-cum-muster roll as the case may be shall be obtained and entries therein shall be authenticated by the initials of the contractor or his representative, and duly certified by the authorities representative, of the principal employer as required by rule 73.
(d) Registers of Deduction, Fine and Advances:- Registers of deductions for damage or loss, Register of fines and Register of advances shall be maintained by every contractor in Forms XX, XXI, and XXII respectively.
(e) Register of Overtime:- A register of overtime shall be maintained by every contractor in Form XXIII to record therein number of hours and wages paid for overtime work, if any.

 

3. Notwithstanding anything contained in these rules where a combined or alternative form is sought to be used by the contractor to avoid duplication of work for compliance with the provisions of any other Act or the rules framed there under or any other laws or regulations or in case where mechanized pay rolls are introduced for better administration, alternative suitable forms in lieu of any of the forms prescribed under these rules, may be used with the previous approval of the Labour Commissioner, Delhi Administration.

79. Every contractor shall display an abstract of the Act and rules in English and Hindi and in the language spoken by the majority the Labour Commissioner, Delhi Administration, Delhi.

80.

(1) All registers and other records required to be maintained under the Act and rules, shall be maintained complete and up to date and unless otherwise provided for, shall be kept at an office or the nearest convenient building within the precincts of the work-place or at a place within a radius of one Kilometer.
(2) Such register shall be maintained legibly in English or Hindi.
(3) All the registers and other records shall be preserved in original for a period of three calendar years from the date of last entry therein.
(4) All the registers records and notices maintained under the Act or rules shall be produced on demand before the Inspector or any other authority under the Act or any person authorized in that behalf by the Lt. Governor.
(5) Where no deduction or fine has been imposed or no overtime allowance has been worked during any wage period, a nil entry shall be made across the body of the register at the and of the wage period indicting also in precise terms the wages period to which the nil entry relates in the respective registers maintained in Forms XX, XXI and XXIII respectively.

 

81.

1. (i) Notices showing the rates of wages, hours of work, wages periods, dates of payment of wages, names and addresses of the Inspectors having jurisdiction and date of payment of unpaid wages shall be displayed in English and in Hindi and in the Local language understood by the majority of the workers in conspicuous places at the establishment and the work-site by the principal employer or the contractor, as the case may be.
  (ii) The notices shall be correctly maintained in a clean and legible condition.
2. A copy of the notice shall be sent to the Inspector and whenever any change occur the same shall be communicated to him forthwith.

 

82.

(1) Every contractor shall send half yearly return in form XXIV (in duplicate) so as to reach the Licensing Officer concerned not later than 30 days from the close of the Half year.
  Note :- Half year for the purpose of this rule means a period of 6 months commencing form 1st January and 1st July of every year.
(2) Every principal employer of a registered establishment shall send annually a return in Form XXV (in duplicate) so as to reach the Registering Officer concerned not later than the 15th February Following the end of the year to which it relates.

 

83.

(1) The Board, committee, Labour Commissioner, Delhi Administration Delhi or the Inspector or any other authority and the Act shall have powers to call for any information or statistical in relation to contract labour from any contractor or principal employer at any time by an order in writing.
(2) Any person called upon to furnish the information under sub rule (1) shall be legally bound to do so.
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