Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
The Centre may soon fix a minimum wage for plantation workers in tea-growing states, besides allowing flexible working hours, mainly during the harvesting season. "Every worker must be paid a minimum wage. Also, we must do away with the system of paying a part of the wage in cash and a part in kind as certain items that are given are sub-standard," said Shankar Aggarwal, secretary in the ministry of labour and employment
