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The Kerala authorities has demanded that the Union Labour Ministry’s draught labour argumentation ‘Shram Shakti Niti 2025’ beryllium withdrawn, with Labour Minister V. Sivankutty calling it an highly anti-labour argumentation which rejects constitutionally enshrined labour rights and the conception of societal justice. He alleged that the argumentation aimed astatine snatching distant the rights of the States.
In a property connection issued successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Thursday (October 30, 2025), Mr. Sivankutty said that citing past texts specified arsenic Manusmriti and concepts similar ‘Rajadharma’ and ‘Shramadharma’ alternatively of the Constitution arsenic the ground for a argumentation papers connected labour rights was condemnable and regressive.
‘Against societal justice’
“The argumentation is portion of an effort to trim workers from being ‘citizens with rights’ to being ‘submissive slaves.’ Bringing backmost specified ideas that warrant caste-based part of labour is against societal justice,” helium said.
The Minister said that employment and labour payment were portion of the Concurrent List of the Constitution. But the draught argumentation wholly bypassed the State. It would pb to ranking the States done mechanisms specified arsenic the ‘Labour and Employment Policy Evaluation Index’ and imposing the pro-corporate policies of the Centre. This was a blatant usurpation of national principles, helium said.
Mr. Sivankutty alleged that the argumentation was wholly soundless connected the astir basal needs of workers specified arsenic occupation security, decent minimum wage, and regular employment. The measures aimed astatine weakening enforcement mechanisms would lone assistance summation labour exploitation, helium said.
