The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour will recommend to the Union Ministry of Labour to frame laws so as to bring workers of the unorganised sector in the country under the social security net.
Disclosing this at a press conference in Gangtok on Monday, committee's Chairman S Sudhakar Reddy said it will also request the ministry to extend these laws to all the states in the country, including Sikkim.
Bringing casual labourers under the social security net implies extending to them the benefits of labour welfare schemes, including the Employees Provident FundĀ and Employees State Insurance schemes, Reddy explained.
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to make this recommendation is based on the outcome of the committee's discussions with the casual labourers working in the Border Road Organisation projects in Sikkim and the tea gardens of the Dooars region in North Bengal, he added.