By Akanksha Sood
In India, currently, there are more than 400 labour laws for central and state combined. Thus, the problem of labour laws needs close and deep introspection. It has also been accused many times that these laws neither has any benefit nor strength for working for population and at the end, they better serve the employer rather than employees.
In desperate need for reforms, there are several changes that the government of India needs to inculcate if it wants to really change the domain of its manufacturing sector.. of 9 crore workers in the organised sector, only 3 crores including public and private sector combined together are covered by existing law as per the data provided by R.B.I.
As a result of such sector-specific law, many companies tend to hire employees on a The task is tough but not impossible to achieve the goal of global manufacturing hub. The changes that are urgently and immediately needed are divided into seven parts
Uniform labour law
At present- there are around 400 local and national laws prevailing throughout the country. Around 26 crores more or less population is involved in agriculture and around 10 crores are involved in the unorganized sector like construction and retailing. Interestingly none of them are fully covered under the prevailing labour laws. Out temporary basis rather than permanent. Some of that laws
are payment of wages (Air Transport Services) Rules 1968, Sales Promotion Employees (Condition of Service) Act 1976” etc. Compound existing law that have a common Application and ObjectiveThe Government should rationalise the prevailing
labour law, which has common application and objective. For example, according to prevailing labour law, a labourer in the state of Tamil Nadu under Minimum Wages Act is entitled to Rs. 346.20 per day (laundry and washing Labour Legislation clothes) and a labourer in the state of West Bengal is entitled to Rs 245 per day In the fountain and ball point industry, yet we all know how much they are paid. Indeed, they are
paid a needle as compared to their sanctioned wages. The Government should draw a uniform way of payment of wages of labourers throughout the country keeping in mind the living standard and inflation. This would save up lots of resource of the government and in a way, could bring about awareness among the labourer of the country. Relax Retrenchment of Labour
This is one most politically charge up problem backed by left and allied group who call them as the protector of working class (bourgeoisie and the proletariat Marxism theory). But Interestingly it only tends to and is supported
by mere 3 crores of working for the population in the country out of 120 crores which seem laughable and nonsense. In my also labour who are in contract with them. It’s when the employees added additional labour through contract when labours went down. Thus, the employer appoints contractors who in turn provide them with contract labour which in
turn pay them much less as what sanctioned by law since they do not fall under the prevailing labour laws on Rolls. Even with that, the Employers appoint Contract Labour for a shorter duration for fear of legal compliance leading to further miniaturisation. The simple solution would be that of providing compliance standard simplified. India basis comprising of Intellectual, Academia,
Technician, etc. And the existing body like National Productivity Council Employment which in my opinion belong to stone age should immediately be disbanded and thrown in the garbage. Yet it’s not easy but not impossible as well.
firm, most opinions neither as socialist nor as a capitalist liberalise retrenchment can be the single, most dominant reform that can withstand nuclear blast India prospect of global Manufacturer.
Employees of the Rolls-What
The government in the past have been unsuccessful in monitoring labour compliance by the employer to the industry in organised Sectors, forget about the unorganized sector. According to the existing law, employers are responsible for maintaining Labour compliance and Education Cum training and Redevelopment This is a genuine issue which the Industrial
Dispute Act has horribly failed to address. As the Godfather of all the labour laws which are the Industrial Dispute Act 1947, its basic crux is to prevent indiscriminate Hiring and firing. The Industrial Dispute Act has caused serious issue of economic and socio strata. They make the running of industries and its expand very difficult. The labourer should
be provided with the imparting technical vocational skill to the labour and that in the case of retrenchment they can be successfully placed somewhere else. The best way to function would be to create an independent body like worker welfare and education on pan Some of the Labour Laws were implemented in the country on the basis of our Socialist belief, but it seems that instead of being helpful to the labour community its
null and void in its applicability. The depressing part is that we claim of the global power cum developed nation yet we fail in providing basic fundamental issue concerning the majority of the country.