Chennai
Condemning the proposed labour reforms of the BJP-led Centre, including increase in working hours by one hour to nine hours per day, LPF general secretary M Shanmugam on Monday said the Centre had resisted the stringent opposition of several trade unions and reduced 44 labour related rules in to four codes.
Referring to the passage of Code on Wages in the upper and lower house of the Parliament with the support of retrograde elements, Shanmugam said the BJP regime has increased the working hours to nine hours at a time when people were clamouring world over for reducing the existing eight-hour work time taking into account employment, environment and health factors. Condemning the Centre for increasing the stipulated working hours in favour of the employers, the LPF general secretary, who is also a Rajya Sabha MP of the DMK said the Centre should immediately roll back the amendment allowing nine-hour working time, which was being introduced in violation of the eight-hour rule India had subscribed to join the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
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