‘Ensure social security for migrant workers’
1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Ensure social security for migrant workers’

The Hindu  

The AITUC Tamil Nadu Manual Workers’ Federation has stressed the need to cover the migrant workers employed in various industries/trade/businesses in Tamil Nadu under the social security schemes implemented by the State government. In a resolution passed at the Federation’s State Committee meeting held in Thanjavur on January 31, the federation pointed out that several lakhs of migrant workers were employed in various trade/business/industries in Tamil Nadu. In order to ensure that at least bare minimum social security cover benefits reach the migrant workers, they should be enrolled in the welfare boards functioning for the benefit of those employed in unorganised sectors, the federation said. In another resolution, denial of pension to senior citizen women members of the unorganised sector workers welfare boards for the reason that these women benefit from the “₹1,000 monthly assistance scheme for women in Tamil Nadu” was opposed by the federation.

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