New Delhi: In the consultation meeting held by Ministry of Labour on Labour Code Rules on Thursday, RSS affiliate Trade Union Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh demanded that the wage definition limiting allowances to 50% of total salary should not be frozen, since it is the mandate of the Supreme Court in Vivekananda Vidyalaya case of 2019. Group 4 Security case previously has mandated 100% allowances to be part of the salary.
The meeting was chaired by Union Minister of Labour & Employment (I/C) Santosh Gangwar. Senior officials like Labour Secretary Apoorva Chandra; Addl Secretary Anuradha Prasad and others participated.
It was a Tripartite Consultation which was attended by both Employers Associations and Trade Unions representatives. The Consultations were initiated by Pawan Kumar of the BMS.
“The Active participation and arguments of BMS have changed the course & direction of the deliberations. The Hon. Minister has accepted to discuss only TWO Codes today and another TWO codes on 12 January 2021. BMS also vehemently opposed the Employers Organisations' demand on relooking into wage definition at which they desired to exempt all types of allowances adding in Wages” said the BMS in a statement released after the meeting.
On behalf of Mazdoor Sangh the Vice President of Organisation S Mallesam and Nilima Chimote, All India Secretary presented their views on Wage Code rules & IR Code rules respectively. SP Tiwari from TUCC and Deepak Jaiswal from NFITU also expressed their views and Ashok Singh of INTUC spoke on behalf of 10 Central Trade Unions
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