(RLFTS) BELEAGUERING LABOUR: Floyding - How to Kill a Law (Part IV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48H-eg2Yng ReachLawyer
Sep 25, 2020
The Labour Code bills will certainly spell doom for what's left of labour protections in the law. @ReachLawyer  discuss these bills with Prof. Babu Mathew. As a celebrated Trade Unionist and Academic, his perspectives on Labour rights are deeply insightful.

Maeen Mavara History of Lobour Laws in India  https://youtube.com/embed/E48H-eg2Yng?start=168&end=665     1919 ILO 1920 AITUC   founded

Prof Babu Mathew Brief on the four Lobour  codes recently passed by Parliament : https://youtube.com/embed/E48H-eg2Yng?start=781&end=1305         Loosing a rich treasure of case law This will play a destabilising the system. 

Compulsory recognition of Trade Union.. sole negotiating agent or bargaining council..  Provision of cancvelling registration is not okay.. immunity from certain laws..taken away.

WageCode : https://youtube.com/embed/E48H-eg2Yng?start=1354&end=2065     Minimum wages Act (1948)  realted to sweated labour..

Social Security Code:https://youtube.com/embed/E48H-eg2Yng?start=2364&end=2713  polarisation in social security measures.  PF and ESIC act is the core.. but limited only to organised sector.. but informal sector is given is a strange mix of anti-poverty measures.. no provision for providing resources.. welfare boards are ebing sought to be dismantled.

https://youtu.be/E48H-eg2Yng?t=4000 BD vekatesh's question on Competiveness being impacted by better wages..   Labour must be cheap to attract investment/development..  ease of doing business arguments..   https://youtube.com/embed/E48H-eg2Yng?start=4000&end=4578

BD Venkatesh Reachlawyer Issue of what happens since the dominent groups  see that Labour is not their problem.   https://youtu.be/E48H-eg2Yng?t=4588

BD Venkatesh Reachlawyer Concluding remarks: The Labour law was a result of great prolonged struggles.   Desh means people, not territory or economy..   https://youtu.be/E48H-eg2Yng?t=5403

 

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