{"id":33176,"date":"2026-09-29T00:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/?p=33176"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:05:04","slug":"rights-of-contract-workers-in-india-analyzing-statutory-protections-and-the-practice-of-sham-contractualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/rights-of-contract-workers-in-india-analyzing-statutory-protections-and-the-practice-of-sham-contractualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights of Contract Workers in India: Analyzing Statutory Protections and the Practice of Sham Contractualization"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Contract Labour in India: Sham Contracts, Labour Codes and the Gap Between Law and Reality<\/span><\/h1>\n

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This article is about contract workers who, according to law, are not the factory’s own workers. The article examines the protections that Indian labour law gives to contract workers, and it also explores a trick that lets a contractor exist only on paper while the real employer avoids responsibility. This trick is known as a camouflage contract, a term used in the Supreme Court’s language. The article traces the story from the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, through the absorption battle that ended in the SAIL case, to the four Labour Codes that have been in force since November 2025.<\/p>

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