BMS plans protest against Centre’s policies on workers

“We will hold our national executive in New Delhi on August 16, 17 and 18, in which we will decide the course of agitation,” he said.

“The government has grouped 42 different labour laws into four codes. Of them, the first code regarding the unorganised sector is good but there are many problems in the drafts of the other three codes. We have given our suggestions for amendments. We will have to see in what shape do these finally come out when the government brings them to Parliament,” he added.

“Eighty-seven per cent people are employed on contract basis and have no job security. This needs to change. Why should the government employ people on contract for regular jobs? Then why can’t all the benefits meant for regular jobs be applicable to the contract employees too.”

Upadhyaya also criticised the move to merge banks and insurance companies. He said, “The world has seen what happens when a big bank collapses. It happened in America a few years ago. So, merging two-three banks into one is fraught with the kind of danger the world has seen from the American example.”