Wage agreement signed for Tiruppur hosiery workers

About six lakh workers employed astatine the hosiery units (domestic and exporting factories) successful Tiruppur territory volition get higher wages from March 17 arsenic six concern associations and 9 commercialized unions signed a four-year statement for revised wages.

According to the agreeement signed connected Tuesday, aft negotiations for astir 5 months, the workers employed successful 7 jobs, including tailoring, checking and packing volition get 33% hike successful wages successful 4 years. Their wages volition summation 18% successful the archetypal twelvemonth and 5% each twelvemonth for the adjacent 3 years. The DA volition beryllium ₹2,500 for 20,000 points and 15.5 paisa for each constituent aft that. The revised wages volition use for workers employed nether both, clip complaint and portion rate. On an average, a tailor volition get ₹80 a time much wages, said the commercialized national leaders.