-Scroll.in The list of laws proposed to be suspended contains Centrals laws. Suspending them would require the President’s approval. On May 6, the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet decided to suspend 35 of the 38 labour laws in the state for three years. It said that this would attract much-needed investment to an economy battered by Covid-19. Three laws have been exempted from the ordinance: the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996; the Workmen...
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Under Pandemic Garb and Modi Sanction, States Unleash War on Workers -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in After some states extended working day to 12 hours, UP and MP have relaxed all labour laws to the delight of the corporate sector. The working class in India is facing a lethal crisis that promises to push their lives back a century, and turn them into modern day slaves. As Newsclick had warned earlier, a savage attack is being unleashed on the workers through wholesale changes in protective laws, patronised...
More »Adityanath Govt in UP to Suspend Key labour laws, Workers' Rights for Three Years -Somesh Jha
-Business Standard/ TheWire.in Under cover of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state government says exempting businesses from these laws will boost investment. But experts term the move an attack on fundamental rights. New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has approved an ordinance exempting businesses from the purview of almost all labour laws for the next three years in a bid to provide a fillip to investments affected by the novel coronavirus in the...
More »Amid COVID-19 Effects, Executive Orders To Fast-Track Labour Codes -Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV Amid an expected global downturn of economy following the COVID-19 pandemic and the related lockdown, the outlook for India has been particularly gloomy. New Delhi: The coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown has pushed the government to take the ordinance route to formulate three of the four labour codes it is planning. The codes have already been introduced in parliament. One of them - the code on wages, which clubs together the...
More »Enable MSMEs to grow and create jobs -Ajay Shankar
-The Hindu Business Line Apart from easing labour laws and providing a social security net, a focus on clusters with access to land and capital will help Getting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), who employ 92 per cent of the workforce, to grow more rapidly should be one of the pillars of any strategy for job creation. This year’s Economic Survey does candidly state that “Our policies must, therefore, focus on...
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