Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
The Madras High Court Bench here has dismissed a public interest litigation petition filed jointly by seven different associations for labourers seeking effective implementation of Sections 3 and 16 of the Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Work) Act, 1982 and the rules framed thereunder. A Division Bench of Justices S. Nagamuthu and M.V. Muralidaran closed the case after recording the submissions made by Commissioner of Labour, in his counter affidavit, that the State was a pioneer in providing social security and extending welfare assistance to manual workers as specified in the schedule to the 1982 Act.
