| The Left parties are ready to make some concessions on the unorganised sector workers Bill but not as many as the government would have liked them to make.
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| The CPI(M) and its trade union wing, the CITU, have decided to relax their earlier demand for two separate Bills, one for farm workers and the second for other workers in the unorganised sector.
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| However, they will vote against the Bill if it is brought in the current form.
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| Md Amin, CPI(M) Politburo member and general secretary of the CITU, said, “We maintain that the government bring the Bill in line with the Arjun Sengupta Committee’s recommendations.
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| However, if it decides to incorporate the suggestions of the parliamentary standing committee, we are not averse to it, but we will oppose the Bill if the UPA government tries to bulldoze it through in its current form.”
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| While the Sengupta committee had sought two separate Bill, the parliamentary committee opposed the creation of a dedicated fund for the schemes for the sector and an administrative implementing authority. The CPI(M), along with other Left parties, has now decided to back the standing committee’s report.
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| The government, to date, hasn’t shown any sign of budging under the Left’s pressure as the labour ministry is not keen to incorporate the changes suggested by even the parliamentary committee. |
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