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               him  were not pursued  by the
               Government.
              • It may be mentioned that even
               prior to that,  the National
               Labour  Law  Association,    a
               society of professional  in the
               field  of  labour  laws  under  the
               Chairmanship of Shri T. S.
               Shankaran,  retired  Additional
               Secretary in the Ministry of
               Labour,  had  submitted  its  re-
               port titled 'Draft Labour Code'
               to the Ministry of Labour in the
               eighties and suggested that the
               various labour laws could  be
               compressed into five functional   to  different  people.  Industry  -  Industrial Relations;
               codes;                          wants  hire  and  fire,  though
              -  Industrial  Relations.;       they may not couch  it in so   -  Wages;
                                                                              -  Social Security;
              -  Wages ;                       many  words.  Trade  Unions    -  Safety and working conditions;
              -  Working Conditions and safety;  want status quo to be adhered   -  Welfare of Workers.
                                               to. Where is the question of any
              -  Social Security; and          reforms, they  ask, in a coun-
              -  Labour Welfare.               try  where payment of wages    • The  Commission  further  sug-
                                               cannot be ensured,  and where   gested that for coverage, the
              • The  Ministry  of  Labour  in   child/bonded  labour cannot    criteria and thresh-hold  limit
               its Note On Making  Labour      be eliminated? Industry points   for the organized sector should
               Market  Flexible;  Suggestions   out that trade unions represent   be minimum employment of
               for  Consideration-2005  looked   only 7% of the work force, trade   20 persons. For establishments
               at the issues of labour reforms   unions counter that  industry   employing less  than 20 work-
               as  under:  'Within  the  next  de-  represents only itself. Basically,   ers, there should be a separate
               cade, half of India’s unem-     both  are protecting  their own   composite  law  providing  for
               ployed will be its  educated    turf. Sadly, nobody is talking to   registration, safety, health, wel-
               youth. If one-half of India’s   the youth of the country, whose   fare of workers, hours of work,
               population  is  under  25,  India   future is at stake. Of course,   leave, wages, bonus, etc. (Paras
               simply needs to double its      everybody should  get a per-    6.11, 6.17, 6.28 and 106)..
               employment.  THE  BPO/IT  in-   manent job, but where are the   • The  Commission  also  recom-
               dustry  generates  a  mere  0.2%   jobs?'                       mended that  the  maximum
               of  employment.  Employment                                     wage for definition of workman
               growth and opportunity will,   • The  Second  National  Labour   should be Rs. 25,000/- p.m., uni-
               therefore, come  only as  the   Commission, set up in 1999 un-  formly for all the labour laws
               Indian  economy  expands.  It   der the Chairmanship of Shri    and  that supervisors  should
               means that India ought to re-   Ravinder Verma, submitted its   also be kept out of the definition
               move the difficulties that have   report in June, 2002 and made   of  ‘worker’  and  clubbed with
               held back the manufacturing     some very important, compre-    managerial and administrative
               and service industries.'        hensive and authoritative rec-
                                               ommendations  in the area of    employees.(Para  6.19).  There
              • It  was  further  stated  in  the   labour law reforms. The report   should  be  single  definition  of
               above  NOTE  as  under:  'Why   recommended that the existing   'appropriate  Government'  ap-
               are  labour  reforms  so  difficult   body of labour laws should be   plicable to all labour laws.
               in  India?    Because  labour  re-  re-grouped in four or five areas  • To provide for minimum level
               forms  mean  different  things   pertaining to-                 of protection to the managerial




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