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Borde extended .. 749 ^ware of imposters posing as Labour Inspectors .. 749 articles, reports, enquiries etc- ^ventieth session of the International Labour 751 Conference (Geneva, June 6 to 27 1984) Participative management in public sector.. 159 gist of important notifications under various labour LAWS-765 CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NUMBERS FOR WORKING CLASS IN MAHARASHTRA ^SIATE- 816 Bombay.. 817 Solapur .. 818 Nagpur .. 819 Pune 820 Jalgaon .. 821 Nanded .. 822 Aurangabad Ra 4456—Ifl The Month in Brief ii CONTENTS Consumer Price Index for Working Class ALL INDIA AXERAGE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NUMBERS FOR INDUSTRIE The Bombay, Solapur, and Nagpur Consumer Price Index Numbers for WORKERS- .. .. .. .. 823 Working class for the month of June 1984, with average price for the year ended December I960 equal to 100 were 604, 601, and 585 respectively. The Pune, STATEMENT SHOWING THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NUMBERS FQr jalgaon, Nanded and Aurangabad Consumer Price Index Numbers forworking I WORKING CLASS BY GROUPS FOR SEVEN CENTRES OF MAHARASHTRA class for the month of June 1984 with the average prices for the year ended STATE— 824 December 1961 equal to 100 were 568, 581, 633 and 599 respectively. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE— Industrial Relations in Maharashtra State .. 825 All India Average Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers Industrial Disputes in Maharashtra State .. 828 All India Average Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers Benefits under Employees State Insurance Scheme. 831 (General) base 1960=100 for June 1984 was 574 as compared to 562 in the month of May 1984. On base 1949—100 derived from 1960 based index worked out to 698 as against 683 for May 1984. t r •* Industrial Disputes in Maharashtra State During the month of May 1984 there were 55 disputes involving 29,736 work men and time loss of 5,47,854 working days as compared to 39 disputes in April 1984, involving 14, 380 workmen and time loss of 3,43,133 mandays. Further particulars of Industrial Disputes are given at Pages 828-829 of this issue. Benefits under the Employees State Insurance Scheme During the months of June and July 1984, 1,65,934 workers were paid Rs. 1,17,57,946= 15P. for the sickness and Rs. 12,52,326.55 were paid for the long term diseases under extended sickness benefit for the classified deseases e.g. T.B., Heniplegia, Paraplegia, Psychoses, etc. 40,358 workers were paid Rs. 92,82,225=94P. on account of accidents as employment injury which included 13,791 cases for the permanent disablement and 5,111 for the pension to the dependents / families due to death of the workers in the accidents. 736 LABOUJI. GAZETTE-AVGUST 1984 737 Current Notes When the question of presenting a candidate for the chairmanship of the yerning body for 1984-85 came up in 1983, the Asian government group, Labour Ministr) for agreed verification formula Japan, recommended that nominee should be from India. All the egional government groups in their meetings last month unanimously took a The Union Labour Ministry is reported to be seriously considering a proposal Jîsion to support Shri Deshmukh’s candidature. that all major trade union centres should themselves evolve a commonly agreed procedure for verifying the membership strength of the central trade union I fhe governing body, which is triparite character, is the executive council of I organisations to determine their representative character. and is elected every three years. According to reliable sources, the ministry is in favour of this proposal in view of the widespread criticism against the present verification procedure. These The governing body meets three times a year. It sets out the agenda for sources say that the leading centres are in favour of reconsidering their approach meetings, takes note of their decisionsand decides on the consequent action to to the verification procedure which was found faulty during the recent verifi l,e taken. It also directs the activities of the International Labour Office. cations conducted by the Chief Labour Commissioner. The INTUC’s claimed membership of 35,09,326 as on December 31 1980 was slashed down 22,36,128 It comprises 56 members 28 representing Governments, 14 representing by the not taking into account the membership of a large number of its affiliated porkers and 14 speaking for employers. unions on technical grounds. The AITUC and CITU, who wanted secret ballot and had boycotted the verification, had also protested by alleging that their The Indian Worker had already reported the election of the Treasurer of unions’ membership were either reduced or just written off in an arbitrary jNTUC, Shri Kanti Mehta to the Governing body on June 13 for the fifth consecutive term. Shri Mehta, secured the second largest number of votes. m inner. {Indian Worker dated 2nd July 1984.) It appears that there is a section in the Labour Ministery which is of the view’ that the two left trade union centres, AITUC and CITU, should not be Amended Workmen’s Compensation Act in force from Joly 1 kept out of the tripartite structure. But in the given situation when the The Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Act, 1984, which received membership of these two organisations stands at around 3 lakhs, they cannot the assent of the President on May 12 has been notified by the Government be accorded national status since the qualifying membership is 5 lakhs as of India for enforcement from July 1st this year. recommended by the trade union centres themselves. The Ministry; it may be recalled, had already announced that it would soon set in motion the process The amended Act provides for higher compensation and removes the wage of verification of membership for the year ending December 1983. It is learnt limit for the coverage by the deletion of the words “ On monthly wages not that the AITUC and the CITU have indicated to the ministry that they are exceeding one thousand rupees” in sub-clause (ii) of clause («) under sub now agreeable to verification provided some glaring loop holes are plugged section (7) of the principal Act. with a view to curb the arbitrary propensities of the bureaucratic machinery. The revised rate of minimum compensation in case of death will now be The Minister is likely to come out with the proposed of a new verification Rs. 20,000 as against Rs. 7,200 at present and in case of permanent disability formula to be evolved by the trade unions themselves in July. the compensation will be Rs. 24,000 as against the present Rs. 10,080. The I Act provides for working out the quantum of compensation with reference The attitude of the other trade union centres is unpredicable.

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