Forum leaders argued that more branches of banks should be opened in the gardens and proper network connectivity ensured in the plantation areas.
July 22, 2019Joint Forum (JF), a conglomeration of over 23 trade unions, will hold a meeting on 29 June to formulate its next course of action to press for the demand for implementation of the Minimum Wages Act in tea plantations after the 25-June deadline set by the Forum already expired. According to sources, JF leaders have …
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June 28, 2018Demanding Minimum Wages Act to be implemented in tea gardens of the Hills, the Dooars and the Terai, the around 23 trade unions, in a meeting in Darjeeling, have decided to launch a series of programmes.
June 20, 2018The CPI-M has appealed to tea workers of Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar districts to keep in mind the ‘principal’ demand for implementation of the Minimum Wages Act in the tea sector and vote accordingly in the upcoming three-tier rural elections. The party also appealed to the Nepali-speaking population to not fall into the “trap laid by …
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April 10, 2018At a time when tea workers in the Hills have started demanding traditional ration and other fringe benefits like firewood in kind and implementation of the Minimum Wages Act in the tea plantations, the state food and supplies department has finally decided to set up Fair Price Shops in each tea garden in the Hills. …
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February 14, 2018The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved a new wage code bill that which will amalgamate and simplify provisions of four labour related laws, sources said. The Labour Code on Wages Bill would amalgamate Minimum Wages Act, 1948, the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 …
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July 27, 2017President Pranab Mukherjee has returned a Bill, that stipulates steep penalty for violating labour laws in the national capital, to the Delhi Assembly. Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said on Thursday that the Bill, that was cleared by the assembly in December 2015, has been returned for "reconsideration". Incidentally, it was returned once before and was …
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March 9, 2017President Pranab Mukherjee has returned a Bill, that stipulates steep penalty for violating labour laws in the national capital, to the Delhi Assembly. Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said on Thursday that the Bill, that was cleared by the assembly in December 2015, has been returned for "reconsideration". Incidentally, it was returned once before and was …
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March 9, 2017