Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, addressing the 31st Plenary Session of INTUC on Saturday, spoke out against the “anti-labour and unimaginative economic policies of the NDA government.” The statement is significant as this INTUC conference came in the context of NDA contemplating replacing the existing labour laws with Labour Code on Wages and amending several major Acts for labour protection. The conference also came in the wake of a country-wide 24-hour general strike of 10 trade unions (apart from BJP’s Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh) observed in September this year. The strike was a demonstration against the labour reforms planned by the NDA government which put jobs of workers at risk and made layoffs easier
