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Construction labour licences
Construction sites need the employer's registration for building workers, a licence for contractors above the labour limit, and payment of the building-workers welfare cess — now consolidated under the labour codes.
- Issued by
- State labour department
- Law
- OSH Code 2020 (replacing the BOCW Act 1996 and Contract Labour Act 1970) and the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act 1996
- Where to apply
- Your state labour department's portal
TaxClue does not handle this service. It is on the checklist because many of our clients need it. Raise a request and we will try to connect you with someone who can do it, where possible.
How Construction labour licences works
The usual picture. Procedures, fees and forms differ by state and authority — always check the current rules before you apply.
Who needs it
- Builders and developers employing building workers
- Contractors supplying labour above the threshold
- Infrastructure and EPC contractors
Documents usually asked for
- Project details and estimated cost (the cess is a percentage of it)
- Details of contractors and number of workers
- Principal employer's details and registrations
The process
- Register the establishment with the state labour department
- Contractors take their own licence where required
- Pay the welfare cess on the construction cost
- Maintain registers and file returns
What we can do today
The other registrations the same businesses need — these we handle end to end.
Registrations we handle
Often needed alongside Construction labour licences.
Read more
Our own write-ups on the subject.
- Labour cost control: idle time, overtime premium, labour turnover and incentive plans, and how to charge each to cost, with a worked example for a small factory →
- Job costing: the job cost sheet, collecting material, labour and overhead for each order and quoting a price, with a worked example for a printing press →
- Standard costing: material price and usage variances and labour rate and efficiency variances, and what each tells the owner, with a worked example for a small manufacturer →
- Functional budgets and the master budget: building the sales, production, material purchase, labour and overhead budgets and joining them into a budgeted profit statement, with a worked example for a small manufacturer →