Dear Sakshar,
I have gone through various comments/advices on the situation.
As per the relevant Act contract workers cannot be engaged for an unlimited period.
Absorption of workers of one contractor( on completion of the contract) with another contractor sounds quite humane but is not a tangible solution.
Some of our friends have referred to practices being followed by PSUs and other private sector companies regarding doing away with the contract workers by absorbing them as departmental workers.
PSUs have run into tremendous losses one such example is Hindustan Steelworks Construction Ltd. The hard fact of life is that organisations cannot survive without contractors and their workers for some or the other job either of petty or short period. Because the same workers who were delivering the requisite quantum of work as contract workers adopt the laid back attitude on becoming the regular employees of the company and become source of problems.
I agree that the problem is ticklish but it has to be tackled out of the box by involving some influential person of the locality as also the state labour machinery.
Regards
S.K.Johri
From India, Delhi
84I have gone through various comments/advices on the situation.
As per the relevant Act contract workers cannot be engaged for an unlimited period.
Absorption of workers of one contractor( on completion of the contract) with another contractor sounds quite humane but is not a tangible solution.
Some of our friends have referred to practices being followed by PSUs and other private sector companies regarding doing away with the contract workers by absorbing them as departmental workers.
PSUs have run into tremendous losses one such example is Hindustan Steelworks Construction Ltd. The hard fact of life is that organisations cannot survive without contractors and their workers for some or the other job either of petty or short period. Because the same workers who were delivering the requisite quantum of work as contract workers adopt the laid back attitude on becoming the regular employees of the company and become source of problems.
I agree that the problem is ticklish but it has to be tackled out of the box by involving some influential person of the locality as also the state labour machinery.
Regards
S.K.Johri
From India, Delhi
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