Substitutes & Casual Labour: RBE No.82/1986 – Maintenance of Live Casual Labour Registers

No.E(NG)II/78/CL/2, dated 25.04.1986

Sub:   Screening and empanelment of casual labour & substitutes maintenance of casual labour registers.

1.     Attention is invited to the instructions contained in the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board’s) letter, of even number dated 22.11.1984. In the P.N.M. meeting with the N.F.I.R. held in December, 1985, the Federation urged that the said instructions should be reviewed as, often, a discharged casual labourer may not get an opportunity, for re-engagement for want of fresh work in the seniority unit from which he was retrenched. They urged that the instructions should be suitably modified so that they do not operate harshly.

2.     In the light of discussions in the aforesaid P.N.M. meeting, it has been decided that the names of such of casual labourers as were discharged from employment at any time after first January, 1981 on completion of work or for want of further productive work, can continue to be borne on the live casual register. Accordingly, where the name of a casual labourer who had been discharged for want of work or on completion of work had been deleted in terms of the instructions of 22.11.1984 cited above, it can be restored to the live casual labour Register. Where, however, a casual labourer was discharged prior to 01.01.1981 and has not been re-engaged thereafter for any reason, his name will continue to stand deleted from the live casual labour register.

3.     The instructions contained in the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board)’s letter No.E(NG)II/80/CL/5, dated 10.12.1984 regarding persons engaged as casual labourers for short durations like a week or ten days for work of a short duration or for emergencies like restoration of breaches etc., will however, continue to hold good. Accordingly, casual labour cards will not be issued to such labourers nor will their names be entered in casual labour register.

4.     Action may be taken in terms of these instructions as early as possible.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.82/1986 

Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.43/1987.