Recovery of contributions from immediate employer — EMPLOYEES’ STATE INSURANCE ACT, 1948

41. Recovery of contributions from immediate employer (1) A principal employer, who has paid contribution in respect of an employee employed by or through an immediate employer, shall be entitled to recover the amount of the contribution so paid (that is to say the employer's contribution as well as the employee's contribution, if any) from the immediate employer, either by deduction from any amount payable to him by the principal employer under any contract, or as a debt payable by the immediate employer.

Section 41