XlRI, the premier management institution, conducted its 7th National Industrial Relations Conference in collaboration with International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FEG).
The theme of the conference Changing labour Market and Industrial Relations, Changing Times: Make in India and the Ensuring labour Reforms. P P Mitra, principal labour and employment advisor, Ministry of labour and Employment TV Narendran, managing director, Tata Steel and Prof Kuriakose Mamkootam, Director and Professor, School of Business, Ambedkar University, Delhi.
Narendran talked about the increasing need for collaboration between the management and the union. Prof. Mamakootam’s stirring address on the Make in India campaign, globalization and labour Reform and the changing IR scenario.
The pre-lunch panel discussion on the “Make in India: Indian labour Reforms and Perspective from global Best Practices” chaired by Prof. Ravi Srivastava, professor, Centre for the study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi with panelists including Dr. S.K. Sasikumar senior fellow V.V. Giri National labour Institute, Virjesh Upadhyay, all india general secretary Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Sharad Patil, ex-director general, Employers’ Federation of India, Dr. Rohini Hensman, independent scholar, Dr R Krishna Murthy director Industrial Relations Institute of India, Mumbai and Gautam Mody General Secretary, New Trade Union Initiative. The panel was followed by an impassioned Q and A between the students and the panel.