Big industries don’t observe uniform labour standards in India: Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh at ILO meet
Contents News/Article Date: 7th December 2022
Relating to which Act: The Information Technology Act 2020, Indian Contract Act 1872, The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947; The Industrial Employment Standing Orders Act, 1946; The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act 1970; The Inter State Migrant workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Central Rules, 1980; The Trade Unions Act, 1926
Applicable to which State: All the establishments in the States as per applicability of the Acts.
Type: Newspaper report
Pertains to: employers and employees
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In the earlier instance, Cognizant has experienced an attrition rate of 6 percent by the end of September in the quarter of the fiscal year 2022. The attrition rates include the employees who have been handed pink slips due to failed background checks.
In the recent past concerning Amazon in Karnataka, Amazon India’s public policy manager had been summoned by the Labour Ministry following a complaint by the employee union Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) alleging a violation of labour laws.
In this instance, The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh is a trade union in India. It was founded by Dattopant Thengadi on 23 July 1955.
The BMS itself claims to have more than 10 million members. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, the BMS had a membership of 6,215,797 in 2002. The BMS is not affiliated to any International Trade Union Confederation. It is the labour wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and forms part of the Sangh Pariwar.
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, the RSS-affiliated central trade union, have urged both the Central as well as state governments to reconstitute all labour-related committees whose terms have expired and make them fully functional.
It has also asked the government to involve trade unions on the social development goals, in the absence of which it has threatened to take further actions against the government.
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Subject: Big industries don’t observe uniform labour standards in India: Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh at ILO meet
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Big industries don’t observe uniform labour standards in India: Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh at ILO meet
BMS chief Hiranmay Pandya said workers face low wages, lack of job security and social security benefits, and had to suffer poor working conditions this year
In his intervention during a discussion on the report presented by ILO Director General Gilbert F. Houngbo, BMS national president Hiranmay Pandya said the mass migration of labour from one country to other and within the country is a key labour problem which requires an appropriate frame of laws.
On the second day of the Asia Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Labour Organisation (APRM of ILO), representatives of workers and employers from India on Wednesday highlighted the employment situation in the country.
While employers hailed the Union government’s steps to “help” workers and Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) during the pandemic, the workers’ side said big industry do not follow labour practices in India.
The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) and the All India Organisation of Employers (AIOE), an allied body of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), presented their views a day after international trade unions attacked the Centre’s labour policies at the meeting.
In his intervention during a discussion on the report presented by ILO Director General Gilbert F. Houngbo, BMS national president Hiranmay Pandya said the mass migration of labour from one country to other and within the country is a key labour problem which requires an appropriate frame of laws. “Workers in the informal and formal sectors need to be provided health protection,” he demanded.
