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Unorganised Workers Federation (UWF) connected Monday launched an indefinite hunger onslaught demanding the Tamil Nadu authorities to walk a solution successful the State Legislative Assembly urging the Union authorities to retreat the labour codes.
The UWF urged the State authorities to safeguard existing sector-specific labour payment legislations and guarantee the continued functioning of payment boards for unorganised workers, including operation workers, cultivation labourers, home workers and others successful the informal sector. They demanded that societal information measures not beryllium diluted nether consolidated labour codes.
R. Geetha of the UWF said that for the past 4 years, unions person been urging the State authorities to walk a solution connected the problem. “Kerala and West Bengal person already done so. It is saddening that Tamil Nadu has not taken a akin step,” she said.
She added that the caller Labour Codes were neither introduced nor drafted successful the tone of the tripartite consultation exemplary advocated by B.R. Ambedkar. “As galore arsenic 44 existing labour laws person been subsumed nether 4 Labour Codes. Several sectors person suffered arsenic a result,” she said, alleging that payment boards person been weakened and are present mostly nether the power of the Union government.
Pointing retired that the Tamil Nadu authorities had antecedently passed resolutions against the 3 contentious workplace laws, NEET, and the ‘One Nation, One Election’ proposal, Arul Doss of the National Alliance of People’s Movements said the State’s reluctance was evident lone erstwhile it came to labour laws.
He noted that the caller labour codes straight impact a ample conception of the population, peculiarly workers successful the unorganised assemblage who represent a important stock of the labour force.
