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RESOLUTION ON Bandhua Mukti Morcha and the Citizens’ Commission on Bonded and Child Labour welcoming in principle the decision of the Central Government to fix a national level floor wage but rejecting the sum of rupees 40 per day as arbitrary, and not being based on any criteria, but only on poverty line consideration, reiterate their plea for a national minimum wage (NMW) payable to all men and women workers with a view to avoiding a debate on how it should be calculated. BMM and the Commission demand that a National Minimum Wage should be equal to the first day wage of class IV employee in the Central Government which have been fixed on variety of considerations examined by the Vth Pay commission and that it should be revised periodically in step with that of the Central Government employees. BMM and the Commission also demand that in the case of employment on piece rate basis, the piece rate to be so structured as would enable a worker to earn at least the daily time rated minimum wage for eight hour of production work. BMM and the Commission demand a new National Minimum Wage should be calculated on human labour cost in the fixation of remunerative prices of farm produce, and in order to create maximum awareness about this basic human right of unorganized labour demand that the entire electronic mass media should be geared up to disseminate relevant information about National Minimum Wage on a regular basis.
BMM and the Commission also strongly urge for the NMW to have reference to the welfare of the worker and his family. There should be an Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) for at least 240 days in a year (accompanied by imposing of total prohibition throughout the country). BMM
and the Commission therefore demand the Central Government to
initiate steps to fix NMW on basis of guidelines suggested above.
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