Indiaâs labour abundance, especially for low-paid jobs, has long been taken for granted. It explains why worries being aired over a scarcity make us sit up and take notice. Recently, S.N. Subrahmanyan, the chief of a company that hires hard-hat workers in hundreds of thousands for construction projects, Larsen & Toubro, spoke of reluctance among…
BJP MP and Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal on Wednesday criticised remarks made by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Chairman SN Subrahmanyan, who linked the unwillingness of labourers to work with government welfare schemes and termed the statement as âmisleading, insulting, and demoralisingâ to India’s hardworking labour force. Also Read: While…
When someone says something that sounds politically correct, you may doubt whether they really mean it. But when someone advocates an idea that is so out of tune with the current reality and changing times, there is no doubt they mean what they say. Larsen and Toubro (L&T) chairman S.N. Subrahmanyan was merely reinforcing, in…
90-hour-work-week: Following L&T Chairman SN Subrahmanyanâs comments suggesting employees work for 90 hours in a week, CPIML (Liberation) MP Raja Ram Singh wrote to Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday, urging him to penalise any violations of laws regarding working hours in offices. In his letter, Singh also referenced a statement by Infosys Co-founder Narayana…
