Railway workers bear the brunt of India’s labour reforms

http://www.equaltimes.org/railway-workers-bear-the-brunt-of#.VO_FOeEnL3d   Recent labour reforms by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government have increased the power of Indian employers to practice contract labour. 
Principally, by raising the threshold for the registration of contractors from 20 to 50 employees, the principal employer and contractor are even less accountable for larger swathes of the Indian workforce.

Following the government’s lead, Indian Railways – which is India’s largest employer with around 1.31 million permanent staff – is gearing up to outsource even more of its services into private hands.

(photo A woman carries a child and walks on a railway platform at a station in Hyderabad, India.
(AP/Mahesh Kumar A.) 

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