Special Report - Labour Laws and ‘Make in India’

The government's key labour reforms bills on industrial relations, wages code, small factories and EPF are likely to be introduced in the coming monsoon session of the Parliament. The bills including Code on Industrial Relations Bill, 2015, The Small Factories (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Services) Bill, 2014, besides comprehensive amendments to the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, which are all aimed at improving ease of doing business and boosting the ‘Make in India’ initiative of the government. The worker's trade unions, including BMS (an RSS affiliate), have expressed strong reservations against these bills. The Central trade unions are going on one day strike on September 2. These Unions have threatened that they would not allow new labour laws to be implemented on the floor. Anchor: Shyam Sunder