BID DOCUMENTS - IDCO

ORISSA P.W.D./ ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT CONTRACTOR’S LABOUR REGULATION
1. Short Title:
These regulations may be called “The Orissa Public Works Department/ Electricity Department
Contractor’s Regulation.
2. Definitions:
In these regulations, unless otherwise expressed or indicated the following words and expressions shall
have the meaning hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say :
(a) “Labour” means workers employed by a Contractor of the Orissa Industrial Infrastructure
Development Corporation directly or indirectly through a sub-contractor or other person or by an
agent on his behalf;
(b) “Fair Wages” means wages whether for time or piece work prescribed by the State Public Works
Department/ Electricity Department for the area in which the work is done;
(c) “Contractor” shall include every person whether a sub-contractor or headman or agent employing
labour on the work taken on contract;
(d) “Wages” shall have the same meaning as defined in the Payment of Wages Act and include time
and piece rate wages, if any.
3. Displace of notices regarding wages, etc.:
The Contractor shall :
(a)
(b)
Before he commences his work on contract display and correctly maintain and continue to display
and correctly maintain, a in a clean and legible condition, in conspicuous places on the work, notices
in English and in the local Indian Language spoken by the majority of the workers, giving the rate of
wage prescribed by the State Public works Department/ Electricity Department for the district in which
the work is done.
Send a copy of such notices to the authorised officer of IDCO.
4. Payment of Wages :
i) Wages due to every worker shall be paid to him direct.
iii)
All wages shall be paid in current coin or currency or in both.
5. Fixation of wage period :
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