Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) It shall be the duty of owner of any establishment, employing or engaging Migrant Worker to ensure the safety and security of the Migrant Worker during the currency of the employment; (2) It shall also be the duty of the owner of any establishment to report any incident threatening the safety and security of the migrant worker to the jurisdictional Police Station and Local Authority; (3) On receiving any such information as mentioned in Section 9 (2) through an owner of an establishment or otherwise, as the case may be, it shall be the responsibility of the Officer-in-charge of the jurisdictional Police Station to ensure that such a complaint of harassment, intimidation, discrimination, personal injury or any other complaint disclosing the commission of any offence against a Migrant Worker, is forth with registered, investigated into, and the matter shall be proceeded as per law; (4) A report in this regard shall also be sent by the Officer-in-charge of the jurisdictional Police Station to the Registering Officer, with a copy to Labour Commissioner, Meghalaya for immediate action, if any, and if so within a period of thirty days from receipt of such information; (5) The Labour Commissioner shall have the power to call for any information in relation to Migrant Worker from owner of any establishment or any other person, employing or engaging a Migrant Worker by an order in writing, to ascertain the facts in relation to the report received under Section 9(3), or in relation to any other information received by him: Provided that the exercise of power under this sub-section, shall not preclude the Labour Commissioner from instituting any proceeding in accordance with powers available to him under any other law in force. (6) The Labour Commissioner, upon receipt of the report, shall consider the same and if there exists prima facie evidence against the owner of the establishment or employee or otherwise, violating any of the provisions of this Act, he shall initiate or cause to be initiated, appropriate proceedings against the said owner of establishment or any other person employing or engaging a Migrant Worker or any employee.