The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 12) observed that the workers employed to perform perennial/permanent nature of work couldn’t be treated as contract workers under the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 to deny them the benefit of regularization of a job. The Bench Comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and Sandeep Mehta opined that the permanent or perennial nature of work couldn’t be performed by a contract worker and has to be undertaken by the regular/permanent worker.
