CPI (M) floor leader in Rajya Sabha Elamaram Kareem has introduced a Private Member Bill in the Upper House to repeal the four labour codes. Titled as the Labour Codes (Repeal) Bill, it seeks to repeal the Code on Wages, Industrial Relations Code, Code on Social Security and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code.
Kareem said widespread protests against these codes are going on in India. “The provisions of the labour codes take away most of the statutory protections for workers and they dilute workers’ social security and welfare schemes. Trade unions across the country are in a united struggle against this. Labour codes, which eliminate all possibility of collective bargaining by workers, are designed solely to protect the interests of employers and corporates. The duty of the government is to strengthen the existing labour laws and make them more pro-labour. The aim of my Bill is to strengthen the nationwide agitation against the labour codes,” he said.
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