New Delhi, July 12 - Union Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge Sunday agreed to amend an act for providing social security to unorganised sector workers after a senior Supreme Court judge pointed out lacunae in the legislation.

Justice S.B. Sinha, the third senior most judge of the apex court, at a seminar here criticised the Unorganised Labour Social Security Act, 2008 on many counts.

'The special problems of migrant workers, specially interstate migrants among unorganised workers and the problems of their security have totally been ignored in the law,' said Justice Sinha.

The criticism prompted the labour minister to say he would correct the law 'at the earliest'.

'Even the constitution has been amended so many times. There is no problem in amending this small parliamentary legislation to remove lacunae pointed out by Justice Sinha,' Kharge said.

'I promise to initiate steps to amend the law at the earliest,' said the minister, who was also present at the seminar organised by the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA).

Justice Sinha said: 'Though the law provides for funding of various schemes, notified by the government for a semblance of social security to the unorganised sector workers, it fails to establish any committed fund for financing of the schemes and leaves it on the central government to decide the matter.