Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 · Chapter II: Inter-State Migrant Workers
Section 65: Past liabilities
No suit or other proceeding shall lie in any court or before any authority for the recovery of debt or any part thereof relating to an inter-State migrant worker after the completion of his employment where it remains unsettled obligation to the contractor or the principal employer and such debt or part thereof shall, on the completion of the period of employment of such worker, be deemed to have been extinguished.
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