Worker, employer bodies seek changes to draft labour rules
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Several unions boycott the consultations terming them a ‘farce’
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The codification of laws on wages, social security, occupational safety and industrial relations into four codes is expected to be implemented in the next financial year.
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Several unions boycott the consultations terming them a ‘farce’
The majority of the Central trade unions on Thursday boycotted the Labour and Employment Ministry’s consultation on the draft rules for the four labour codes enacted by the government in 2019 and 2020, terming the exercise a “farce”.
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The Indian farmers’ agitation and the socialist strategy of the working class
The more than 3-week-long agitation mounted by hundreds of thousands of farmers on the outskirts of Delhi has highlighted and intensified the popular opposition of India’s workers and toilers to Narendra Modi and his far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
Rushed through parliament in September in conjunction with a sweeping attack on workers’ rights, the Modi government’s pro-agribusiness farm laws will put tens of millions of small and marginal farmers at the mercy of domestic and international agribusiness.
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500 farmers head to Delhi from Nashik in parallel to 2018 march
While the congregation was not as impressive as the one in 2018, the All India Kisan Sabha, which organised both the marches, said that they expected the numbers to swell as various contingents were expected to join the march on the way. Updated: December 22, 2020 8:21:03 am
The farmers expect numbers to swell as various contingents may join the march on the way. (Express Photo by Deepak Joshi)
OVER 500 farmers, some of them participants of the 2018 farmers’ march to Mumbai, crammed into 70-odd vehicles and embarked on a 1,260-km road journey from Nashik to Delhi to join the protesting farmers.