Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970

Act No. 37 of 1970 35 sections

Text as published by the Legislative Department, from the copy archived on 27 January 2018. Amendments made after that date and before the repeal may be missing; check the official Gazette for them.

Repealed and replaced by the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still governs matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides, which is why the judgments below apply it.

49 Supreme Court judgments considering this law. Search within these.

• Jamshedpur Contractors' Workers' Union v. State of Bihar and Ors.
  1990 INSC 24922 August 1990Disposed of
• Sankar Mukherjee and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
  1989 INSC 35016 November 1989Allowed
• Food Corporation of India Workers' Union v. Food Corporation of India and Others
  1985 INSC 461 March 1985Allowed
• Workmen of the Food Corporation of India v. M/S. Food Corporation of India
  1985 INSC 4028 February 1985Appeal(s) allowed
• Bandhua Mukti Morcha v. Union of India & Others
  1983 INSC 20316 December 1983Disposed of
• Labourers Working on Salal Hydro-Project v. State of Jammu & Kashmir and Others
  1983 INSC 182 March 1983Appeal(s) allowed
• People'S Union for Democratic Rights and Others v. Union of India & Others
  1982 INSC 6718 September 1982Allowed
• Gammon India Ltd. Etc. Etc. v. Union of India & Ors. Etc.
  1974 INSC 6220 March 1974Dismissed
• Vegoils Private Limited v. The Workmen
  1971 INSC 24410 September 1971Appeal(s) allowed