Defeated Labour Laws in India

Title: Labour Laws are being defeated in India.

Structure, objects and Aims to set up and codified Labour Laws in India is now at the edge of its failure. The left parties who had been introducing themselves as Watchdogs for labourers are now become habitual of enjoying chair in politics and have forget their so called aim of welfare of labour class. India is going sharply to contract labour and the labour laws are being defeated. Even Govt. departments who are bound to engage permanent employees are now hiring labour/employees through out sourcing agencies and there is no future of indian yputh and their future is not safe in India at present because the labour welfare organisations have closed their eyes. No one cry for the labour and the Judiciary has also denied help of employees saying that back door entry is not allowed (Uma Devi Case) whereas front doors have already been closed by the Govt.

Mr. Sarvesh K Sharma has added an article on the topic of labour laws in India saying that the, “The history of labour legislation in India is naturally interwoven with the history of British colonialism. Considerations of British political economy were naturally paramount in shaping some of these early laws. In the beginning it was difficult to get enough regular Indian workers to run British establishments and hence laws for indenturing workers became necessary. This was obviously labour legislation in order to protect the interests of British employers.Then came the Factories Act. It is well known that Indian textile goods offered stiff competition to British textiles in the export market and hence in order to make India labour costlier the Factories Act was first introduced in 1883 because of the pressure brought on the British parliament by the textile magnates of Manchester and Lancashire. Thus we received the first stipulation of eight hours of work, the abolition of child labour, and the restriction of women in night employment, and the introduction of overtime wages for work beyond eight hours. While the impact of this measure was clearly welfarist the real motivation was undoubtedly protectionist!To date, India has ratified 39 International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions of which 37 are in force. Of the ILO’s eight fundamental conventions, India has ratified four – Forced Labour 1930, Abolition of Forced Labour 1957, Equal Remuneration 1951, and Discrimination (employment and occupation) 1958.”

But where our organisations have been slept. The Contract /outsourcinmg agencies are filling their pocketswith Govt. Money by procuring more money from Govt and by paying very much lesser to the employees and are getting much hard work for more than 12 hours a day and no body hearing their cry.