Ramadoss welcomes SC verdict on equal pay
Welcoming the Supreme Court verdict on equal pay for permanent and contract workers engaged by various government departments, PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss on Sunday said that the current form of contract labour was nothing but a replica of the bonded labour system.
By : migrator
Update: 2016-10-31 04:09 GMT
Chennai
Ramadoss said that this kind of employment was implemented after the new economic policy came into force. Initially, the system of hiring contract labourers was implemented to recruit temporary workers to cope up with the time gap in recruiting permanent workers. But the intermediate arrangement has now become a permanent one and promoting more work for less pay leading to exploitation of labour, he said. “Since states and Centre are involved in this form of employment there is no remedy for the contract labourers,” he added.
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