The Industrial Relations Code is one of three laws aimed at effecting labour reforms that were passed by Parliament Wednesday. It seeks to amend laws relating to trade unions.
The strike, against the Modi govt's move to open up the coal sector to privatisation, is set to be observed by 2.72 lakh workers across multiple unions.
BMS says govt’s 13 April order making it mandatory to carry pictorial warnings on beedi bundles from 1 September will hit industry hard at a ‘most inopportune’ time.
The trade union said it strongly objected to announcements on the corporatisation & privatisation in 8 sectors and alleged the govt is shying away from consulting with trade unions.
RSS labour wing, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, is planning to hold protest against the changes introduced in labour laws by BJP-ruled MP and UP governments.
BJP consulted economists, industry representatives to make suggestions to Modi govt on how to revive economy. RSS affiliates like SJM and BMS also chipped in.
BMS has rejected the Modi govt's fourth draft social security code, saying a lot of beneficial provisions included in the first draft have been removed.
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh wants govt to tweak current formula for minimum wages, particularly the presumption that each wage-earner supports a family of only 3.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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