Kerala is drafting a Migrant Welfare Social Security Act that aims at protecting the labour rights of migrants. It will also facilitate the process of registering all migrants coming to the state.
The state labour and rehabilitation ministry will submit the draft ordinance, a first-of-its-kind in the country, to the cabinet for its approval.
Once approved, the ordinance will make registration mandatory for all employers in the state who employ skilled and unskilled migrant labourers. The employers will be mandated to provide minimum wages, provident funds and other basic welfare schemes as envisaged in the labour laws.
Senior labour department officials said that once the act comes into existence, inspectors can conduct regular checks to all industrial units and commercial establishments to see whether the migrants labourers are availing their basic rights.
West Bengal tops the list of migrants with 20% followed by Assam with 17%; Uttar Pradesh came third with 15%. A religion-wise break up showed that around 50% of migrants from Assam and West Bengal were Muslims and 20% from Odisha were Christians; around 69% of them earned in the range of Rs 300 to 600 a day, depending on their individual skills and expertise.
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