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As told to Irfana and Danish on 31 May'2011
We went to the colonies on employer basis and asked 3-4 workers including ladies. There are 3 construction companies related with building construction operating in our campus.
Asked about	Kalsi Brothers	Kohli Brothers	Gautam
Number of people(roughly)	100-120	150	100-150
Identity cards provided by the company	No
First Aid	on time
Drinking Water	satisfactory, good
Urinals	About to make urinals	No proper urinals
Working Hours	8
Workig Days	As per workers' will
Over time wages	rate = normal working rate
Safety Measures	Taken care on time by authorized people, taken to hospital if required
Children's care/creches	Children are prevented from the sites by authorized people, no creche	Children are not prevented from getting into the sites, no creche
Any people working with visual or hearing imapairment	Probably one man has hearing problem	No
Worker below 18 years of age	No
Areas	Guest House	Academic Block and Lecture Hall complex	Faculty House
Awareness about Punjab Building and Construction Workers Welfare Board or any other related office	No, but they get their wages on time and are satisfied with the company		Aware about some labour office but they get their wages on time and are satisfied with the company

Highlighted points can be compared with the following laws:

13. IDENTITY CARDS. -

(1) The Board shall give to every beneficiary an identity card with his photograph duly affixed thereon and with enough space for entering the details of the building or other construction work done by him.

(2) Every employer shall enter in the identity card the details of the building or other construction work done by the beneficiary and authenticate the same and return it to the beneficiary.

(3) A beneficiary who has been issued an identity card under this Act shall produce the same whenever demanded by any officer of Government or the Board, any inspector or any other authority for inspection.

16. CONTRIBUTION OF BUILDING WORKERS. -

(1) A building worker who has been registered as a beneficiary under this Act shall, until he attains the age of sixty years, contribute to the Fund at such rate per mensem, as may be specified by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette and different rates of contribution may be specified for different classes of building workers :

Provided that the Board may, if specified that a beneficiary is unable to pay his contribution due to any financial hardship, waive the payment of contribution for a period not exceeding three months at a time.

(2) A beneficiary may authorise his employer to deduct his contribution from his monthly wages and to remit the same, within fifteen days from such deduction, to the Board.

"In respect of this, the workers reported that the company does not take any money from them."

29. WAGES FOR OVERTIME WORK. -

(1) Where any building worker is required to work on any day in excess of the number of hours constituting a normal working day, he shall be entitled to wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages.

(2) For the purpose of this section, "ordinary rate of wages" means the basic wages plus such allowances as the worker is for the time being entitled to but does not include any bonus.

18. CONSTITUTION OF STATE WELFARE BOARDS. -

(1) Every State Government shall, with effect from such date as it may, by notification, appoint, constitute a Board to be known as the ... (name of the State) Building and other Construction Workers' Welfare Board to exercise the powers conferred on, and perform the functions assigned to it, under this Act.

(2) The Board shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid, having perpetual succession and a common seal and shall by the said name sue and be sued.

(3) The Board shall consist of a Chairperson, a person to be nominated by the Central Government and such number of other members, not exceeding fifteen, as may be appointed to it by the State Government :

Provided that the Board shall include an equal number of members representing the State Government, the employers and the building workers and that at least one member of the Board shall be a woman.

(4) The terms and conditions of appointment and the salaries and other allowances payable to the chairperson and the other members of the Board, and the manner of filling of casual vacancies of the members if the Board, shall be such as may be prescribed.

22. FUNCTIONS OF THE BOARDS. - -

(1) The Board may-

(a) provide immediate assistance to a beneficiary in case of accident;

(b) make payment of pension to the beneficiaries who have completed the age of sixty years;

(c) sanction loans and advances to a beneficiary for construction of a house not exceeding such amount and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed;

(d) pay such amount in connection with premia for Group Insurance Scheme of the beneficiaries as it may be deem fit;

(e) give such financial assistance for the education of children of the beneficiaries as may be prescribed;

(f) meet such medical expenses for treatment of major ailments of a beneficiary or, such dependent, as may be prescribed;

(g) make payment of maternity benefit to the female beneficiaries; and

(h) make provision and improvement of such other welfare measures and facilities as may be prescribed.

(2) The Board may grant loan or subsidy to a local authority or an employer in aid of any scheme approved by the State Government for the purpose connected with the welfare of building workers in any establishment.

(3) The Board may pay annually grants-in-aid to a local authority or to an employer who provides to the satisfaction of the Board welfare measures and facilities of the standard specified by the Board for the benefit of the building workers and the members of the family, so, however, that the amount payable as grants-in-aid to any local authority or employer shall not exceed-

(a) the amount spent in providing welfare measures and facilities as determined by the State Government or any person specified by it in this behalf, or

(b) such amount as may be prescribed, whichever is less :

Provided that no grants-in-aid shall be payable in respect of any such welfare measures and facilities where the amount spent thereon determined as aforesaid is less than the amount prescribed in this behalf.