Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act : DISPLACEMENT ALLOWANCE

Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act,1979

Act No : 30

Section : DISPLACEMENT ALLOWANCE

SECTION 14: DISPLACEMENT ALLOWANCE

- (1) There shall be paid by the contractor to every inter-State migrant workman at the time of recruitment, a displacement allowance equal to fifty per cent. of the monthly wages payable to him or seventy-five rupees, whichever is higher.

(2) The amount paid to a workman as displacement allowance under subsection (1) shall not be refundable and shall be in addition to the wages or other amounts payable to him.