INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Labour Ministry has decided to extend social security cover to all casual municipal workersThe Labour Ministry has directed Employees' State
Insurance Corporation (ESIC) to extend coverage under ESI Act to all casual and contractual workers employed with municipal bodies in the
This will enable lakhs of such people to avail a social security cover under which they will get sickness, maternity, disability and
all casual and contractual workers with the respective state governments, under whose jurisdiction the municipal fall.Notifications for ESI
coverage are issued by states
already notified under the ESI Act, 1948 by the Central Government.?For National Capital Region of Delhi, the Central Government being the
7, 2021 to it.Announcing the decision, Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar said that though lakhs of casual workers work under the jurisdiction
of municipal councils and corporations, due to lack of any social security, they are a vulnerable lot
Therefore the decision to extend the benefits to them under the ESI Act will address this concern.
