INDORE: Ever since demonetisation , it's the turn of daily wage and contract labourers to feel the heat. With industries cutting down production, hundreds of migrant labourers are on the verge of losing their livelihood.Around 70,000 contract and daily wage earners - a large number of them from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and parts of South India - work in industrial units in Pithampur city, one of the largest industrial belts in the state.There are other industrial units such as those at Sanwer road, Polo ground and Palda. Labour associations claimed that contract workers have not been getting paid on time and many have been asked by their employers not to report to work for a fortnight.Shyam Sundar Yadav, general secretary, Madhya Pradesh Indian National Trade Union Congress said, "Daily wages to contract workers have taken a beating. Industries do not have the money to pay workers. More than 70 per cent of them do not even have bank accounts."Labour associations claimed that due to industries' lack of funds, many of them have cut down production and labour. They said migrant workers work either work on a daily or weekly basis."Workers can't accept payments in old notes as they do not either have the option or time to go to banks," added Yadav. Experts said that demonetisation has been a double whammy for industrialists who had already been suffering from financial crisis."It's no work no pay for daily wagers. Some industries, such as the automobiles one, have been hit by poor demand and they've cut down work force in their plants."Gondane said there is no such law in India where it is mandatory for the employer to report the labour department about layoffs.A few other labour association members said many workers were planning to go back to their native places due to the lack of work and pay.