Under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, an employer intending to engage contract labour must obtain a licence, and the Code applies to every establishment or contractor engaging how many contract workers?

The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 subsumes the earlier Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970. Under the Code, the provisions relating to contract labour apply to every establishment in which fifty or more contract labour are employed, or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months, and to every contractor who employs or employed fifty or more contract labour. This raises the earlier threshold of twenty under the 1970 Act. A contractor must obtain a licence to undertake work through contract labour, and the principal employer must be registered. This regulates the engagement of contract labour in larger establishments.