Concept — Employee, Employer, Dependent, Disablement and its kinds

A labourer slips from bamboo scaffolding at a building site in Navi Mumbai and cannot work for three months. Who is liable to pay him, and does the answer change if he was hired by a contractor and not by the builder? Does his widowed mother count as someone the law protects if he dies? Employees’ compensation starts with four words that the Code defines carefully: employee, employer, dependant and disablement. Get these right and the rest of Chapter VII follows.

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Chapter VII of the Code on Social Security, 2020 pays compensation for employment injury, and it works only through its definitions: who is an employee, who is the employer, which relatives are dependants, and whether the disablement is total, partial, permanent or temporary.

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