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Thursday, January 6, 2011

SPARK's Comments on Draft Labour Policy 2010

The following are the Comments by SPARK on Maharashtra's Draft Labour Policy 2010. Suggestions were invited  by the Labour Department. The Draft Labour Policy 2010 is available on Maharashtra Government's website

1) As this is the first time Department of Labour is drafting a policy, the department and the secretary deserve accolade.
2) This seems more as a pre-policy document rather than a policy document. A more concrete and structured policy should be developed out of this document.
3) It has been admitted that most of the laws concerning labour are age old. Hence the policy document needs to ensure a time bound review of all the existing acts and policies concerning labour. The document should also ensure necessary amendments in the old acts and policies in specified time period.
4) The document mentions about retraining of inspectors for effective inspection of unorganised sector. Unless the old policies are amended, such efforts will serve minimum purpose. For example: the safety law does not apply to unorganised sector, what is the point in training inspectors monitor safety standards in unorganised sector.
5) Provide protection to workers – has been spelled out as one of the objectives of the policy. However ‘protection’ includes opportunity to earn decent living. Hence issue concerning ‘revision on minimum wages’ needs to be dealt with. In the present system the wages are not revised in years. The wages need to be reviewed and revised every year, taking into consideration the cost of living.
6) Having welfare board for each different occupation seems impractical. Instead a single mechanism to ensure social security benefits and welfare schemes is necessary.
7) The contract labour is supposed to be employed in cases where the work is of incidental and occasional nature. There are incidences of government institutions appointing labourers on contract. Hence implementation of act needs to be reviewed.
8) Child labour (prohibition and regulation) Act allows employment of children in non hazardous industries and occupations. There is no definite procedure to declare the industry or occupation hazardous. The decision is taken haphazardly. Also any occupation can prove hazardous to a child, incidences of physical and mental abuse over domestic helps is common. Hence the child labour needs to be abolished as bonded labour has been. Also it is very wrong to blame the parents for making their children work. If the parents are ensured of decent minimum wages, that will allow them to take care of their family, they will not make their children work.
9) Women labourers have different needs than that of their male counterparts. These need to be recognised. Separate washrooms, facility to take care for young children are necessary.
10) The Inter State Migrant Workmen Act needs to be reviewed. There needs security measures for the within-state migrant workmen as well.
11) Like MAHASHRAMM, IT can be used to keep record of labourers in unorganised sector, to keep track of how many days of employment was secured by the labourer, to run a kind of ‘syndicate of services’, where the person in need of labourer can find the labourer as per his requirement, to ensure unemploymet allowance to labourers, etc.

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