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Over 380 members of the CITU were arrested connected Tuesday erstwhile they staged dharna astatine six places successful the territory demanding the Centre to retreat the 4 labour codes.
The protestation astatine Sivakasi was headed by CITU convenor P. Balasubramanian, successful which the territory caput P.N. Deva and different leaders, including V.R. Chellasamy and K. Pappa Umanath, took part.
Mr. Balasubramanian said that the Labour Laws that were amended successful 2019 were successful favour of employers and it would enslave the workers to the employers.
“The workers of tiny standard industries would beryllium severely affected due to the fact that of the caller codes,” helium said.
While the Labour Laws had mandated that immoderate leader having a minimum of 20 workers should supply them ESI and PF benefits. But, present it has been amended that the mandatory benefits of ESI and PF should beryllium extended lone erstwhile the minimum fig of employees was 100, helium said.
Similarly, the workers would suffer the close to minimum wages and close to contented onslaught notice.
Besides, the workers could beryllium forced to enactment for much than 12 hours a day.
