![]() Secretary of the Department of Labour, and Secretaries of the Department of Finance, Planning and Social Welfare as members. The Board will consist of a chairperson, i.e. Till the state governments constitute their State Welfare Boards, the amendments provide for the constitution of a Board that will perform such functions.The amendments remove the: (i) 90 day requirement for registration of workers and, (ii) the upper age limit of 60 years. Under the RECS Act, every building worker between the ages of 18 to 60 years who engaged in any building or construction work for at least 90 days (during the past one year) is eligible to register as a beneficiary.The Bill allows the central government to notify the maximum cost of construction. The RECS Act is being amended to remove the upper limit of Rs 10 lakh as the total cost of construction.The cess is paid to the Building and Construction Workers’ Welfare Board constituted under RECS Act. The cess collecting authority (local authority or state government) deducts upto one percent of the amount collected towards the cost of collecting such cess. The WC Act provides for the levy and collection of a cess on the employer, at the rate of one to two percent of the cost of construction incurred by him.The RECS Act regulates the employment, service conditions, health, safety and welfare measures of building and other construction workers.the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 (RECS Act) and the Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Cess Act, 1996 (WC Act). The Bill has been referred to the Standing Committee on Labour for examination and report within three months. The Building and Other Construction Workers Related Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2013 was introduced in the Rajya Sabha by the Minister of Labour and Employment on March 18, 2013. ![]()
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