Social Security and Cess in Respect of Building and Other Construction Workers

Every new tower in Navi Mumbai or Thane has hundreds of workers on the site, most of them on daily wages and moving from one project to the next. They have no employer who will still know their name in five years. The Code on Social Security, 2020 answers this with a simple device: make every builder pay a small percentage of the cost of construction into a fund, and let a State Board use that fund for the workers. Chapter VIII is that device, and this topic is about how it works.

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Chapter VIII (ss.100–108) levies a cess of not less than one and not more than two per cent of the cost of construction on employers, pays it into a State Building Workers’ Welfare Board fund, and gives registered building workers benefits through that Board.

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