Expressing concerns over underpayment to contractual workers, delayed payments and low deposits to EPFO and ESIC, labour secretary Arti Ahuja has written to chief secretaries of all states and administrators of the union territories to incorporate certain statutory obligations in their contract to avoid exploitation of the workers, the ministry of labour and employment said on Wednesday.
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