The Right to Social Security Campaign (RTSSC) Odisha chapter organised a State-level consultation on the Draft labour Code on Social Security and Welfare here on Friday.
RTSSC, Delhi’s Vaibhav Raaj making a presentation welcomed the Union Government for planning to provide social security to 40 crore informal workers in the country.
Highlighting the provisions in the Social Security Code and their possible impacts on the lives of workers, including unorganised ones, he said the four codes, which would replace about 44 central labour laws, include Code on Wages, Code on Industrial Relations, Code on Social Security and Welfare and Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions.
Among the four, Code on Wages and Code on Industrial Relations would be presented in the Parliament during the monsoon season, added Raaj.
He said there are still certain concerns of the workers that need to be addressed by the Government and expressed apprehensions if State Governments would be able to design and implement their own social security schemes such as pension and life insurance as it would be decentralised programme.
Odisha’s Construction Workers Board chairman Subash Singh, Health Rights activist Dr Ravi Dugal, AITUC’s Sauri Bandhu Karaa, INTUC’s Satya Brata Nayak, HMS’s Joginath Tripathy, BMS’s Ranjan Kumar Sahu, Naba Mohanty, Rama Krushana Panda, Reena Routray, HDF-cDAR chairman DK Roy and many other intellectuals kept their views
Members of trade unions, voluntary organisations and labour activists attended the programme.