IANS, PTI CPM opposes fixed term employment for all sectors

new delhi — The CPM on Friday denounced the government move to introduce fixed contractual jobs all across the private sector.

“This will rule out the future possibilities of any permanent employment and work security for the working people,” the Communist Party of IndiaMarxist said.

“It will lead to the outright contractualistaion of labour. Surreptitiously the hard-won rights of the working class, the existing labour laws are being changed to further the interests of foreign and Indian corporates,” it said.

“The Central Committee supports the protest actions planned by the trade unions on this issue.”

The government had extended the facility of hiring workers on fixed term employment to all sectors for improving the ease of doing business for players intending to hire people for completing specified projects, tasks or orders. This facility was available only for the apparel manufacturing sector as per the Industrial Establishment (Standing Order) 1946.

As per a notification issued by the labour ministry to amend the Order, words “fixed term employment in apparel manufacturing sector” will be replaced by “fixed term employment” meaning that facility would be available for all sectors. In his Budget speech earlier last month, Finance Ministry Arun Jaitley had said, “the facility of fixed term employment will be extended to all sectors”. —