Friday, October 21, 2011

Labour unrest in Maruti plans ends

by Haryananewswire (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, OCT 21  
As a result of a tripartite agreement reached between the Haryana Government, Management of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd and Workers, the labour unrest, continuing since October 7 in the four plants of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, Suzuki Motorcycle, Suzuki Powertrain Ltd and Suzuki Casting Plant came to an end today and the workers would return to work with immediate effect.
          While giving this information here today, an official spokesman said that this had been made possible due to the intervention of the Haryana Labour Department and the District Administration of Gurgaon in a series of talks held with the Management of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd and the representatives of the workers of the plants.
As a part of the agreement reached, the management has agreed to take back 64 of the 2,000 permanent workers who had been sacked for breaching disciplinary guidelines. Another 30 will remain suspended because of the “serious nature” of their actions during the industrial dispute. All the contractual workers would now be allowed to come back and work in these Plants and the situation of the workers would now be the same as was on August 29, 2011.
          He said that Maruti had decided to set up a “grievance redressal committee”, with representation from the management and workers, to prevent further strikes. A labour officer would also be a permanent member on the committee.  In order to provide a harmonious working environment at the facility, it was also decided that in future if there was a strike in any one Plant of Maruti Suzuki, the workers of the other plants would not join the strike.
          It was further decided amongst both the sides that the concept of ‘no work no pay’ would also come into force, thereby no pay would be due towards the striking workers. Besides this, only one day’s pay would be deducted as penalty. 

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