https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168566 Under the Factories Act, 1948, the duties to maintain a register of adult workers and ensure consistency with working-hour notices apply only to persons employed in the factory under a contract of service and subject to the management's control and supervision. Applying that test, independent contractors who manufacture bidis on their own account are not "workers" merely because they supply goods to the factory, and their coolies are likewise outside the definition where they are engaged by the contractor, not the factory. In such circumstances, omission of their names from the register does not amount to a breach attracting liability. en-us Tue, 18 Feb 1958 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:34:17 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168566 Under the Factories Act, 1948, the duties to maintain a register of adult workers and ensure consistency with working-hour notices apply only to persons employed in the factory under a contract of service and subject to the management's control and supervision. Applying that test, independent contractors who manufacture bidis on their own account are not "workers" merely because they supply goods to the factory, and their coolies are likewise outside the definition where they are engaged by the contractor, not the factory. In such circumstances, omission of their names from the register does not amount to a breach attracting liability. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 18 Feb 1958 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168566