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Contractors to publish minimum wages and workmen register in website : Notification by Labour Department of NCT Delhi

Delhi Labour Department (during the short stint of Am Admi  Party in power) issued a notification mandating all contractors to publish in their website the minimum wages as notified by NCT and also payment of wages to workmen by cheque or ECS. It was reported that many Trade Unions, workmen and even the Delhi Government has reported that the Contractors are not complying with the MW Act and also not paying wages by cheque or ECS. However, while enforcing the notification are overzealous and tend to over step their jurisdiction. They have mandated that the website should contain the whole details of the employees including their address date of birth phone numbers ect. and full pay details. In my view this is not the objective and the objective to ensure payment of minimum wages, bring awareness of the notified wages and raise over all awareness. The Contract employees include women in large scale and publication of their whole personal data in a website for public view could e