Cheema said the legislation would provide relief to workers who had remained outsourced for upto 15 years. He accused successive Akali-BJP and Congress governments of allowing such workers to be exploited and said the AAP dispensation was attempting, through legislation, to provide job security to long-serving outsourced employees. He the Bill would cover eligible outsourced Group C and Group D workers engaged in essential public services, including electricity, firefighting and other services without which normal life could not function. In the first phase, he told the House, 26,000 to 28,000 outsourced employees will immediately benefit from this initiative. “These employees will no longer remain outsourced; they will now become members of the government family,” he added.