States/UTs to ensure implementation of Inter-State Migrant Workers Act: SC

Bandhua Mukti Morcha Vs Union of India & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) In a Suo Motu Writ Petition, Hon’ble Supreme Court observed that a direction need to be issued to the States/Union Territories to register all establishments and license all contractors under the Inter State Migrant Workers Act, 1979 and ensure that statutory duty imposed on the contractors to give particulars of the migrant workers is fully complied with. The competent authority while registering the establishments and granting license to the contractors may also impose conditions pertaining service condition, jo...