The Union labour ministry has proposed that fixed term employment will be on par with permanent work and salaries must be paid within seven days of a wage period, according to the new draft order for industrial establishments and mines.
The move is aimed at institutionalizing the changing work culture in the country. While industries favour fixed term employment, trade unions have been against it claiming that it goes against the concept of job security. Fixed-term employment means the engagement of a worker on the basis of a written contract of employment with the employer for a fixed period, provided that his hours of work, wages, allowances, and other benefits shall not be less than that of a permanent worker doing the same work or work of similar nature, the ministry said in the draft standing order. The draft order has inserted fixed-term employment as a category of employment but has removed casual work from the list.
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