The Madras High Court has issued notice to the state government on a PIL seeking a direction to bring into force the Industrial employment (standing orders), Tamil Nadu Amendment Act, 2008 and to frame rules for the purpose of reduction of employment of apprentices and fixation of percentage of apprentices.
When the PIL filed by advocate T K Saravanan came up, a division bench of Justice K K Sasidharan and Justice R Subramanian, issued notice to government pleader TN Rajagopalan, who sought time to get instructions, and posted the matter to July 16.
The petitioner, referring to women appointed in various textile mills as apprentices, submitted that, "on expiry of three years, the adolescent women apprentices, who are paid meagre wages as stipend under schemes like 'Sumangali Scheme' 'Thirumana Udavi Thittam', are not retained in service and the mill owners would engage another set of apprentices."
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