vocations like mathadi, hamals, casual workers
employed in docks, lokhandi jatha workers, salt pan workers and other
manual workers mostly work outside fixed premises ... employment as defined in Section 2(11) of the
Mathadi Act?
(ii) Whether a Mathadi worker, who has been engaged directly by
an employer, would
consideration in this appeal by special leave filed by Mathadi Workers
Union - the appellant.
The factual background in which the said question arises ... consideration is the following:
Mathadi workers are the members of the appellant-Union. They are
unprotected workers who carry out the manual work in vegetable
such Mathadi workers were provided by the Mathadi Board which fully controlled the Mathadi workers. It was therefore specifically denied by the respondent company that ... Welfare Act, 1969 (for short the Mathadi Act). To protect such unorganised class of Mathadi workers the State of Maharashtra has enacted the aforesaid
which is
a registered employer with the Mathadi Board i.e. respondent no.1, the
Mathadi workers sent by respondent no.1 for carrying ... Section 6 or 6A of the Mathadi Act, while fixing the rates of wages
payable to Mathadi workers, has to take into consideration the provisions
definition of "protected", "unprotected workers" and "worker" in the Mathadi Act of 1969 which has to be read conjointly ... workers and "unprotected worker" as defined in Section 2(11) and "worker" in Section 2(12) of the Mathadi
Mathadi Act, apart from wages and other service benefits. The Mathadi Act, it is stated, was enacted to prohibit exploitation of the mathadi workers ... provisions of the Mathadi Act. A scheme has been framed under the Act which is applicable to the Mathadi workers. The Board consists of equal
called
unprotected mathadis.
2. Consequently, the petitioner need not be
registered under the Mathadi Act and cannot be
coerced into employing mathadi workers.
3. Factories ... vocations like
mathadis, hamals, casual workers employed in docks,
lokhandi jatha workers, salt-pan workers and other
manual workers mostly work outside the fixed
premises
Welfare)
Act, 1969 (the Mathadi Act, 1969). Respondent No.1 is a registered Trade Union of
the Mathadi workers registered with the Respondent ... contractor to do all the mathadi work from May 2021.
However, the Petitioner restrained the mathadi workers registered with Respondent
No.2 Board from working
jobless workers registered with the
Board. Till such time those workers on given option refused to work at
the said place, no new worker should ... workers in tolis and when there was no need to
increase the workers strength. This does not deal with workers who are
already registered
deputed on the request of the
employer by the Mathadi Board. The Mathadi workers are to
work in any of the registered establishments ... engage for employment a
worker unless than worker is a registered
worker."
15. The employment of a registered worker in the pool
shall
