Covid-19: Unions seek labour minister's intervention to prevent job losses, pay cuts; demand income support scheme for informal workers

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Apr 02 2020 | 5:34 PM IST

Trade unions on Thursday sought Labour Minister Santosh Gangawar's intervention at the ground level to stop retrenchment of employees and salary cuts and also demanded an income support scheme for over 40-crore informal workers hit by the coronavirus lockdown in the country.

The 10 central trade unions have written a letter to the minister, bringing to his attention issues like job losses, forced unpaid leave and salary cuts.

In the letter, the unions said, "A comprehensive income-support scheme for all the unorganised/informal sector workers is the urgent need of the hour and we urge the government to urgently act upon the same to save overwhelming majority of the country's workforce from biggest human disaster."
On the jobs front, they said, "We are still regularly getting information of forced unpaid leave, etc, including from NCR region.''

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First Published: Apr 02 2020 | 5:34 PM IST