Industrial Code: Govt drops plan to bar 'outsiders from trade unions

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Under pressure from trade unions (TUs), the government has dropped a 2015 proposal to bar outsiders from becoming trade union office-bearers in organised sector establishments. In the final draft on the Code of Industrial Relations tabled in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, the government has also removed another proposal of the 2015 draft to restrict the number of outsider office-bearers in the unorganised sector TUs to two.