Updated Mar 10, 2021 | 10:51 IST
Assam govt on Monday announced that wage of tea garden workers will be increased by Rs 50. Moreover, for equal wages of small tea workers, a one-man committee under Principal Secretary JB Ekka will be formed Guwahati High Court stays order on tea worker s wage hike| Image by Ishaq Ironight from Pixabay
New Delhi: Assam state government on February 23 had hiked the daily wage of tea garden workers by Rs 50. However, the workers are unlikely to get the benefit anytime soon as the Guwahati High Court has ordered the state government not to take any action against the Indian Tea Association and 17 tea companies until a case, filed challenging the Assam Labour Department’s notification on the wage hike, is disposed of.
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Unions write to PM on exploitation in security industry
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley - FILE PHOTO BY JEFF K MAYERS
TWO trade unions have joined forces in an appeal to the Prime Minister to intervene to stop the exploitation of private security guards.
They have also called for a commission of enquiry into the practices of security firms and their poor industrial relations practices.
Claiming many private security firms flout national insurance regulations, the unions appealed for state contracts not to be given to such companies.
The presidents of the two unions – Dave Smith of the National Workers Union (NWU) and Deryck Richardson of the Estate Police Association (EPA) – have described the working conditions of some officers as “slave-like.”
First Indian female president of Oxford students union quits after racism row
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Rashmi Samant, who created history by being elected the president of the Oxford University Student Union (SU), has stepped down after the emergence of her old social media posts that were declared racist and insensitive .
The posts, some from 2017, included a photo of her visit to Malaysia with the caption “Ching Chang .
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Though Samant claimed the phrase translated from Mandarin to “eat the plants and was a joke about her being unable to find any vegetarian food at the temple, Chinese students said the term was a reverse Google Translation not used by native Mandarin speakers.
From 23 February, the passengers will have to submit a self-declaration form (SDF) for Covid-19 on the online Air Suvidha portal before the scheduled travel.On Tuesday, the Health Ministry said four people were detected with the South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2 and one tested positive for the Brazil variant, a first for India