CHALLENGES BEFORE SOCIAL SECURITY & WELFARE CODE, 2017

Recent National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government initiative to provide universal social security cover to the entire working population through ‘Labor Code of Social Security & Welfare' is a welcome move. Although the draft in the present form fails to fulfill its stated objective and provides less than the existing benefits to the unorganized sector workers from whatever is available under the existing legislation. The draft needs to be rethinking and improved from the experience of the existing legal framework of Social Security such as Building & Other Construction Welfare Board.