Headload workers to begin work from today at Kozhikode Cyberpark

Encouraged by an order from the Deputy Labour Commissioner to restore the right of native headload workers to work at the Government Cyberpark Project site, the workers will commence work at the site from today.

July 28, 2014 10:06 am | Updated 10:08 am IST - Kozhikode:

Encouraged by an order from the Deputy Labour Commissioner to restore the right of native headload workers to work at the Government Cyberpark Project site, the workers will commence work at the site from today.

The Deputy Labour Commissioner’s order last Thursday had put to rest a month-long dispute over work at the cyber park site.

The decision to commence loading and unloading work at the site from Monday was announced on Sunday by a Joint Action Council (JAC) of various trade unions that includes the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC).

The joint action council leaders said the workers were prevented from entering the site by some of the security men even after the order was issued by the Deputy Labour Commissioner.

“This should not happen again and we will enter the site for works as per the final ruling of the appellate authority on the issue,” the joint action council said.

The contractor of the construction company was legally responsible to accommodate the native headload workers on the basis of the fresh order, P.M. Karthikeyan, one of the leaders of the joint action council, said.

No additional wages “Our labourers never sought additional wages for the work other than what the government had already recommended in the special chart, he claimed.

The action council leaders also warned that they would be compelled to move on with stronger protest measures, including indefinite dharna and march, if the company at the construction site was again trying to keep out the native work force.

The native headload workers would take up the loading and unloading works as per the terms and conditions mentioned in the appellate authority’s order, they added.

The Deputy Labour Commissioner’s order had also upheld an earlier ruling by the District Labour Officer on the issue that all labourers who had registered their names under 26 (A) of the Kerala Headload Workers Rules 1981 would be eligible for work to unload goods up to three tonnes, other than electronic components, at the construction site.

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