Bonus Applicable to BOCW Workers, with Retrospective Effect from 2019  -  Labour & Employment Department Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu Labour and Employment Department applies Payment of Bonus Act to establishments under BOCW Act, 1996

The Tamil Nadu Labour and Employment Department on September 28, 2020 has issued Notification no G.O.Ms. No. 157, Labour and Employment (H1) applying the provisions of the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 to establishments under Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 in which less than twenty workers and not less than ten workers are employed or were employed on any day during the accounting year 2019. 

Retrospective Effect of Bonus - The provisions would apply from the accounting year commencing on any day in the year 2019.

Please noted that for the purpose of this Act, establishment means any establishment belonging to, or under the control of, Government, corporate or firm, an individual or association or other body of individuals which or who employs building workers in any building or other construction work; and includes an establishment belonging to a contractor.