• Mohd Abdul Maroof
• Dr. Amol Murgai

This paper unfolds the conditions of Contract Labours in India and presents the insights of the conditions of these Contract Labours. In the current dynamic competitive market availability of Skilled contract labour has become a challenge, as most of the companies be it large scale or MSME are predominantly dependent on the hands of these contract labour. Therefore most in general typically company will always prefer a labour on contract rather the permanent worker, as it gives flexibility to the employers to hire and fire at their will. Also, contract labours receives almost half of the wages of those workers who are directly employed by the companies on their regular rolls. These companies, make significant savings in their wage costs by hiring these contract labours also by the virtue of being temporary they are eligible for very few employee benefits in comparison to the regular workers & staff. All these factors put the companies is a cost effective position to keep the product cost low and increase the profit shares. Also the presence of contract workers in the companies acts as an alternative workforce to lower down the bargaining power of their regular workers who are unionized. Although the Government of India safeguards the rights of these contract labour through a dedicated Act “Contract labour Prohibition and Abolition Act, 1970. Yet most of these contract labours are deprived of their legitimate rights by their employers and are exploited by them to larger extent The Paper is based on secondary data and has attempted to understand the present conditions of Contract Labour in India.

"“Critical Analysis of Conditions of Contract Labour in India”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.172-175, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904T25.pdf

"“Critical Analysis of Conditions of Contract Labour in India”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp172-175, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904T25.pdf