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The territory committee of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) has urged District Collector S. Kandasamy to instantly hole and notify the territory minimum wages for 2026-27 and guarantee their implementation with retrospective effect from April 1, 2026.
In a petition emailed to the Collector, territory president S. Chinnasamy said the hold successful notifying the revised wages had deprived thousands of regular wage workers employed successful authorities and government-aided establishments of a wage increase.
The national said the revised wages should instrumentality into relationship the steep emergence successful the outgo of surviving caused by increases successful the prices of LPG, substance and indispensable commodities. It besides urged the medication not to trust solely connected the Dearness Allowance revision announced by the Commissioner of Labour, contending that it did not adequately bespeak prevailing inflation.
AITUC further sought a azygous wage operation crossed the district, arguing that fixing wages based connected the class of section body, corporation, municipality, municipality panchayat oregon colony panchayat, resulted successful disparities. It cited the rule of “equal wage for adjacent work” and called for a communal wage rate.
The national besides alleged that respective authorities departments and backstage contractors had failed to instrumentality the minimum wages fixed by the Labour Department and the District Collector. It specifically referred to workers engaged done contractors successful the Erode Corporation, municipalities, panchayats, Government Erode Medical College Hospital astatine Perundurai and different authorities hospitals.
The petition sought enactment against erring departments, contractors and officials, and demanded outgo of pending minimum wage arrears to workers.
