CPI to insist on guarantee of labour rights in SEZ issue

September 24, 2008	(Be the first to rate this story!)  Loading ...
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The CPI is likely to insist on “firm conditions” like guarantee on labour rights while giving approval for the pending proposals on SEZs in the next Kerela cabinet meeting. The CPI state council, which met here yesterday to thrash out differences in the party over the issue, directed its ministers to ensure that the party’s concerns were fully addressed while drawing up a policy framework on SEZs, party sources said.

The council, which will continue today, was held in the wake of the dissent openly voiced by the party’s trade union wing AITUC and youth outfit AIYF on giving approval to SEZs without properly guaranteeing rights and privileges of workers and other conditions like exclusion of agricultural and environmentally sensitive areas. The party wanted the government to bring in a legislation on SEZs, which would guarantee that the special industrial zones were not given “unrestricted” powers over the work force or convert the lands allotted into real estate property.

The LDF liaison committee had last week reached an understanding that SEZs proposals could be approved “based on a clear-cut policy framework” drawn up by the cabinet, which would address the concerns of the LDF.

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