Govt accepts Parliamentary panel suggestion to include workers with family income less than Rs 18,000/month, ‘so no one is left out of social security net’.
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has decided to expand the definition of ‘inter-state migrant worker’ to ensure that no one gets left out of the social security net in the future, ThePrint has learnt.
The definition will now include all workers whose monthly family income is less than Rs 18,000, and who go to another state and get directly employed or self-employed.
This is the first time income criteria will be included to define a migrant worker.
The changes to the income ceiling and the inclusion of self-employed migrant workers were recommended by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour, which had reviewed the proposed Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSHWC) Code, 2019, and submitted its report to Parliament in February 2020.
Bhartruhari Mahtab, chairman of the parliamentary panel on labour, told ThePrint: “Expanding the definition will ensure that no migrant worker who leaves his native place and comes to work in cities and towns is left out of the government’s social security net.”
Source: ThePrint
