Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Ame1.1dment of Act 20 of 1980.-In the Kerala Headload Workers Act, 1978 (20. of 1980), after section 9, the ft>llowing section 'shall be. · msCrted. namely:- · · "9A. Engaging the services of headload workers.~~) Subject to the provisions of this Act, an employer shall engage a headload worker registered under the Act in connection with the work of his establishment: • ' . f t i ·- 3 · Provided that in the ca5e of works whic~ require assistance of skilled persons and which are to be done with due diligence or require the aid of machinery, such works may be done by engaging the pcrs0ns having such skill or by. the machinery, as ·the case may be . . (2) Every Headload worker shall be entitled to wages as prescnl>ed by the Government under the provisions of this Act only if their services have been engaged by the employer or .t~e owner of an .establishment". "'