Land, transport, electricity costs need to be reduced; arbitrary interpretation of tax and other laws needs to stop. Failure to do so will have opposite effect.
Taking to Twitter, the Congress leader attacked PM Modi over the labour reform bills saying under his rule the poor are exploited and 'friends' nurtured.
In episode 575 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains why the three labour codes passed in the Parliament Wednesday are mired in controversy and the reforms they will bring about.
The codes on industrial relations; occupational safety, health and working conditions; and social security aim to simplify archaic labour laws and give impetus to economic activity.
In a series of tweets, PM Modi said these 'futuristic legislations' universalise minimum wages, timely payment and give priority to occupational safety of workers.
The three codes — on industrial relations, health & safety and social security — aim to reform archaic Indian labour laws and benefit employers & employees.
Changes have been proposed in revised and final version of proposed Code on Social Security, 2020, which is likely to come up for passage in monsoon session of Parliament.
Members of the panel on labour, which met Monday, also said there should be a social security number for all migrants so that they can register in the proposed national portal.
When Israelis pushed out Arabs in 1948, they didn’t think that embittered refugees would turn into a permanent threat to their new state. This was a catastrophic miscalculation.
ISKP, a sub-continental branch of the Islamic State, is said to have vowed to extend operations in Kashmir, on encouragement from Pakistan’s security establishment.
Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.
Nobody talks about the justice system. That also acts as a brake on economic growth.
To enforce business contracts we need court cases to proceed fast and judgements delivered quickly.
First we require national wage policy. To avoid migration of labour fo availing the opportunity cost. The basic salary should be fixed as common all over India with DA and other allowances as per location of city, municipality, corporations, and villages. To avoid transport cost residing homes should be provided alongsiide industrial complexes. The employers and govt executives resonosible for implementing the labour laaws if violated the labour laws they should be imediately dismissed from serivce. The labour cases should be finalised within te labour court / State/ National Tribunals. it should not be allowed to go to HIgh or Supreme Court. BY Constitutional research and reforms advocate. Author of Book Appointmet and Removal of Judges- Indian Context. The need to revamp the Indian Constitution. The Judicial training needs and empopwerment of women in judiciary, which are available throuigh Amazon and Flipkart marketing at low prices immediately
Most labour work is done informally
The minimum wages is difficult to enforce in this informal sector. Law of supply and demand works here.
In developed countries even for a plumber repair ing your house you have to pay as per law. Punishment is strict.
In a formal factory setup, minimum wages can be enforced by the labour ministry. Here our government employees and labour ministry are corrupted and overlook violations of law. Government employees are quite smart they know how not to get caught.
It is easy to make laws in our country, but hard to enforce.
Yes, wise guy Ninan, Govt knows that. And is doing what it can as fast as it can. (Another hack here argues we are going too fast!!)
These so-called experts (a.k.a journalists) all this while were shouting ad nauseam that we need labour reforms. When we get the reforms – okay, good, but that’s not good enough! Why? Coz’ you see we are journalists and we need a paycheck every week – so we got to write something! Never mind what we write is crap.
but you came to read the crap. what a sad life you have..!!
Can anyone answer my problem? A person is employed at the age of 23. For 20 years he slogs for the company. By this time his pay increases because of seniority. His work does not increase proportionately because the company did not progress proportionately. One fine day at the age of 43 the company dismissed him and took a trainee in his place at one fourth pay. To do the same work. This is a true story. Happened where i worked. In one of the top companies in India. 25 engineers were removed. Trainees were taken. Okay engineers can adapt to different work. What if 25 workers were removed. To he ll with their families. To he ll with their children.
Stop making babies and start your own business where nobody can sack you.
Easier said than done.
But where is the demand. Indian customers do not empty their pockets easily. Business ideas can succeed only if there is a market for it.
There are only two ways….
1. Total state control with curtailed freedom: like the Communist China, what it was. But finally to compete with the World they too have to resort to Capitalistic ideas (Jack Ma and his breed)
2. Create more jobs . For this more investments are required to promote more businesses and industries. Banks or the Government cannot bring in the required investments. One source is Foreign investments – they have limitations of policy etc… The other source is local, from within the country. For this, The Nation has to first create indigenous billionaires, millionaire an HNIs. They will invest, creating more jobs and in the process keep the interest rates and inflation subdued.
The state can also alleviate the pain by giving unemployment doles….(for this each Indian will have to have a unique identity and possibly a bank account)
Businesses and Industries can’t be expected to guarantee employment to all Indians. Wealth can’t be created that way. Without wealth there can’t be investments. Without investments there can’t be jobs…..The vicious circle!!!!
Make it easy to start small businesses.
Businesses should be spending their time on quality, customer service, innovation and competition. They should not be spending time and money on dealing with unnecessary government regulations.
Stop crony capitalism of the large and established industrialists. It stifles innovation and competition from small businesses.
Chinese are too far ahead of us in the business game. They have world class indigenously developed products exported worldwide.
Even before mainland China liberalised in 1979, the Han race had successfully created a flourishing business environment in HongKong Taiwan and Singapore.
The changed labour laws will affect permanently employed blue collar workers in smaller factories now.
In white collar jobs in private sector there was no protection anyway. Per HR records, employee resigned but actually the boss would have asked the employee to leave. White collar employees cave in and offer resignation letter because they don’t want their relieving letter to indicate they were “fired” !
Most Indian office workers in private sector
are interested in career progression. Promotions entail salary increases but productivity of senior employees does not increase at same rate. Senior employees are a good target for cost cutting. What’s more senior employees have to train junior employees and then after the junior has picked up the skills, the senior can be terminated. The only way for the senior to survive is by picking up business skills.
For labour workers there is no career progression. At the maximum they can hope to become a supervisor.
Yet another Great article from the author. What worries me is that the other reforms like land, electricity are very touchy issues with considerable power to the states. Given the way the rightly formulated farm issues are being opposed, I think the govt and specifically Modi-Shah need to use their mind to create consensus on these issues. As much as i don’t like wasting time on consensus, this is the only way we can ensure legitimacy and commitment of the entire pol spectrum to these reforms and only then will they be implemented well. Telangana has already opposed Electricity Amendment Act. Let’s see. But our democracy has to deliver. Let’s see if our leaders have it in them.
Nobody talks about the justice system. That also acts as a brake on economic growth.
To enforce business contracts we need court cases to proceed fast and judgements delivered quickly.
First we require national wage policy. To avoid migration of labour fo availing the opportunity cost. The basic salary should be fixed as common all over India with DA and other allowances as per location of city, municipality, corporations, and villages. To avoid transport cost residing homes should be provided alongsiide industrial complexes. The employers and govt executives resonosible for implementing the labour laaws if violated the labour laws they should be imediately dismissed from serivce. The labour cases should be finalised within te labour court / State/ National Tribunals. it should not be allowed to go to HIgh or Supreme Court. BY Constitutional research and reforms advocate. Author of Book Appointmet and Removal of Judges- Indian Context. The need to revamp the Indian Constitution. The Judicial training needs and empopwerment of women in judiciary, which are available throuigh Amazon and Flipkart marketing at low prices immediately
Most labour work is done informally
The minimum wages is difficult to enforce in this informal sector. Law of supply and demand works here.
In developed countries even for a plumber repair ing your house you have to pay as per law. Punishment is strict.
In a formal factory setup, minimum wages can be enforced by the labour ministry. Here our government employees and labour ministry are corrupted and overlook violations of law. Government employees are quite smart they know how not to get caught.
It is easy to make laws in our country, but hard to enforce.
“Yeh dil maange more” …..waiting for Godot
It does not have to be that way…
Just saying
Yes, wise guy Ninan, Govt knows that. And is doing what it can as fast as it can. (Another hack here argues we are going too fast!!)
These so-called experts (a.k.a journalists) all this while were shouting ad nauseam that we need labour reforms. When we get the reforms – okay, good, but that’s not good enough! Why? Coz’ you see we are journalists and we need a paycheck every week – so we got to write something! Never mind what we write is crap.
but you came to read the crap. what a sad life you have..!!
Can anyone answer my problem? A person is employed at the age of 23. For 20 years he slogs for the company. By this time his pay increases because of seniority. His work does not increase proportionately because the company did not progress proportionately. One fine day at the age of 43 the company dismissed him and took a trainee in his place at one fourth pay. To do the same work. This is a true story. Happened where i worked. In one of the top companies in India. 25 engineers were removed. Trainees were taken. Okay engineers can adapt to different work. What if 25 workers were removed. To he ll with their families. To he ll with their children.
Stop making babies and start your own business where nobody can sack you.
Easier said than done.
But where is the demand. Indian customers do not empty their pockets easily. Business ideas can succeed only if there is a market for it.
There are only two ways….
1. Total state control with curtailed freedom: like the Communist China, what it was. But finally to compete with the World they too have to resort to Capitalistic ideas (Jack Ma and his breed)
2. Create more jobs . For this more investments are required to promote more businesses and industries. Banks or the Government cannot bring in the required investments. One source is Foreign investments – they have limitations of policy etc… The other source is local, from within the country. For this, The Nation has to first create indigenous billionaires, millionaire an HNIs. They will invest, creating more jobs and in the process keep the interest rates and inflation subdued.
The state can also alleviate the pain by giving unemployment doles….(for this each Indian will have to have a unique identity and possibly a bank account)
Businesses and Industries can’t be expected to guarantee employment to all Indians. Wealth can’t be created that way. Without wealth there can’t be investments. Without investments there can’t be jobs…..The vicious circle!!!!
Make it easy to start small businesses.
Businesses should be spending their time on quality, customer service, innovation and competition. They should not be spending time and money on dealing with unnecessary government regulations.
Stop crony capitalism of the large and established industrialists. It stifles innovation and competition from small businesses.
Chinese are too far ahead of us in the business game. They have world class indigenously developed products exported worldwide.
Even before mainland China liberalised in 1979, the Han race had successfully created a flourishing business environment in HongKong Taiwan and Singapore.
The changed labour laws will affect permanently employed blue collar workers in smaller factories now.
In white collar jobs in private sector there was no protection anyway. Per HR records, employee resigned but actually the boss would have asked the employee to leave. White collar employees cave in and offer resignation letter because they don’t want their relieving letter to indicate they were “fired” !
Most Indian office workers in private sector
are interested in career progression. Promotions entail salary increases but productivity of senior employees does not increase at same rate. Senior employees are a good target for cost cutting. What’s more senior employees have to train junior employees and then after the junior has picked up the skills, the senior can be terminated. The only way for the senior to survive is by picking up business skills.
For labour workers there is no career progression. At the maximum they can hope to become a supervisor.
Yet another Great article from the author. What worries me is that the other reforms like land, electricity are very touchy issues with considerable power to the states. Given the way the rightly formulated farm issues are being opposed, I think the govt and specifically Modi-Shah need to use their mind to create consensus on these issues. As much as i don’t like wasting time on consensus, this is the only way we can ensure legitimacy and commitment of the entire pol spectrum to these reforms and only then will they be implemented well. Telangana has already opposed Electricity Amendment Act. Let’s see. But our democracy has to deliver. Let’s see if our leaders have it in them.