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Centre working to ease labour laws: Dattatreya
The Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Bandaru Dattatreya, has said the Union government’s initiative of introducing ‘Smart Card’ (Unique Identification Number) for unorganised sector workers would help create greater transparency.
Hyderabad: The Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Bandaru Dattatreya, has said the Union government’s initiative of introducing ‘Smart Card’ (Unique Identification Number) for unorganised sector workers would help create greater transparency.
Addressing the Southern States Regional Conference of State Labour Ministers held at Administrative Staff of College of India (ASCI) on Saturday, the Union Minister said there were about 45 crore workers engaged in unorganised sector. For organised sector, the government had already introduced UAN (Universal Account Number), where about 10 lakh employees had already registered themselves online.
He said the government was aiming at easing existing labour law with the four codes covering industrial relations, wages, social security and safety issues. “Our objective is simplification, rationalisation and amalgamation of laws,” he explained. Allaying “apprehensions” raised by Southern States, Dattatreya stressed need for increasing the employability in all the sectors.
He called upon the officials of Labour and Employment Department to increase employment opportunities, besides resolving the issues relating to labour. He said the Prime, Minister Narendra Modi’s vision was to increase the employment opportunities through technical training, hence the government had formed a separate Skill Development Ministry.
Giving insights into how the Labour Department had moved from lackadaisical approach to efficient handling of the issues, he said the Inspectors were now providing reports on any issue within 72-hours and uploading them on ‘Shramsuvidha’ portal. Earlier Telangana Labour Minister, Naini Narasimha Reddy, and the Kerala Labour Minister, Shibu Baby John, expressed apprehension over the Central government bringing in changes in Labour Laws, including Trade Union Act.
Telangana Minister urged the government not to change laws related to “small scale industries,” as workers are more prone to exploitation. On the other hand, Kerala Minister objected to the third party certification in various sectors, while pointing out that it may lead to dilution of the norms.
Both the Ministers questioned the government’s intention for trying to bring in reforms, in the Industrial Migrant Workers Act, as no State government can stop migrants from working in their State. “Central government should initiate tripartite talks on this issue,” both emphasised.
Earlier during the day, the Karnataka Labour Minister, Parameshwara Naik and Secretary (L&E), Shankar Aggarwal spoke. The Ministers of AP, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu could not attend the Conference due to their prior engagements.
