law: Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 
  
  45.Responsibility for payment of wages and compensation.- 
  (1) An employer shall be responsible for
  
  payment of wages to each building worker employed by him and such wages shall
  
  be paid on or before such date as may be prescribed.
  (2) In case the contractor fails to make payment of compensation in respect of
  
  a building worker employed by him, where he is liable to make such payment when
  
  due, or makes short payment thereof, then, in the case of death or disablement
  
  of the building worker, the employer shall be liable to make payment of that
  
  compensation in full or the unpaid balance due in accordance with the
  
  provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), and recover the
  
  amount so paid from the contractor either by deduction from any amount payable
  
  to the contractor under any contract or as a debt payable by the contractor.