Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996
45.Responsibility for payment of wages and compensation.-
(1) An employer shall be responsible for
payment of wages to each building worker employed by him and such wages shall
be paid on or before such date as may be prescribed.
(2) In case the contractor fails to make payment of compensation in respect of
a building worker employed by him, where he is liable to make such payment when
due, or makes short payment thereof, then, in the case of death or disablement
of the building worker, the employer shall be liable to make payment of that
compensation in full or the unpaid balance due in accordance with the
provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), and recover the
amount so paid from the contractor either by deduction from any amount payable
to the contractor under any contract or as a debt payable by the contractor.