Bill cloud on rights of workers in many plants
(WorldNews India)

Three-fourths of India’s factories will be exempt from norms meant to protect workers against arbitrary dismissal or punishment, or discrimination in promotion and transfers, if a modified labour bill is passed, labour economists have said. Only factories with less than 100 employees are now exempt from following these norms, under the Industrial Employment (Standing Order) Act and the Industrial Disputes Act, which the Industrial Relations Code bill looks to subsume. The IR Code bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha on Saturday, seeks to extend the exemption to all industrial...