Ilo Meet Reveals Disparate Views On Labour Policy

While ILO officials felt that a healthy airing of views would help in clearing some of the conflict that surrounds the liberalisation programme, trade union leaders, employers and government officials persisted in repeating their pre-SAP views at the forum.

The disagreement was not, however, limited to these three arms of labour. Even Richard Hemming, senior resident representative of the IMF in Delhi, predictably trashed a recent ILO report on the subject that was being used as the take-off point for the ILO national tripartite workshop.

Hemming began politely by complimenting the publication of the report by the ILO, a unit of the UN, and then proceeded to tear it apart: There are two propositions that really concern me. One, linking the minimum wage to the poverty line and the other on the indexation of wages, he said.

 

Minutes before and in the morning session, ILO