The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the 43rd session of Indian Labour Conference on 23rd November 2010 at Vigyan Bhawan New Delhi in the presence of Union Minister of Labour & Employment Shri Mallikarjun Kharge.
The Ministry of Labour & Employment has a unique mechanism of tripartite consultation amongst social partners – Workers, Employers and Government, at various levels – sectoral as well as national – on issues relating to labour. The Indian Labour Conference – the apex tripartite consultative body at national level has been aptly described as the “Labour Parliament of India”, a confluence of creative forces and energies and the testing ground of tripartite consensus in decision making. The first such tripartite consultation at national level was held in 1942 as Tripartite National Labour Conference – subsequently renamed as Indian Labour Conference since 1944. So far, 42 Sessions of Indian Labour Conference have been held to discuss prominent labour related issues. The 43rd Session of Indian Labour Conference being held on 23 – 24th November, 2010 under the chairmanship of Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, Union Minister of Labour & Employment.
The Conference will deliberate upon very topical and critical issues viz., (i) Global Financial downturn – its impact – job losses – comprehensive package for protection of labour force, etc., (ii) Problems of contract labour – social security, wages, etc. and amendments in the contract labour legislations and (iii) Employment generation and skill development. The conference will be attended by senior representatives of Workers and Employers Organisations and State Labour Ministers & Sr. Officers from Central Ministries/Departments and State Governments. Central Ministers have also been invited to attend the Conference. Some fruitful results are likely to emerge from the brain-storming sessions on issues before the conference. This process will definitely strengthen the institutions of social dialogue already, in place and will result in better understanding of each other’s perspective and convergence of varied ideas and approaches amongst social partners.
The Indian Labour Conference (ILC) is the apex level tripartite consultative committee in the Ministry of Labour & Employment to advise the Government on the issues concerning working class of the country. All the 12 Central Trade Union Organisations, Central Organisations of employers, all State Governments and Union Territories and Central Ministries/Departments concerned with the agenda items, are the members of the ILC.
Parity in number of representatives is maintained between the Employers’ and Workers’ Groups by allocation of equal number of seats to each Group. As recommended by the National Labour Conference held in September 17-18, 1982, only Trade Union Organisations, which have, a membership of more than five lakhs spread over four States and four industries are given representation in the ILC. The Employers Organisations represented in ILC include, CIE (SCOPE, EFI & AIOE), AIMO, LUB, CII, FICCI & ASSOCHAM. The Government seats are determined so as to give representation to various Central Ministries, State Governments and Union Territories.
As a matter of practice, and to maintain continuous dialogue with social partners, a meeting of this apex body is convened once in a year to discuss the topical issues concerning labour.
The first meeting of the Indian Labour Conference (then called Tripartite National Labour Conference) was held in 1942 and so far a total of 42 Sessions have been held. The 42nd Session was held on 20 – 21 February, 2009. As a consensus desire of all social partners, the conference is inaugurated by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India.
The 43rd Session of Indian Labour Conference is scheduled to be held on 23 – 24, November, 2010 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi under the Chairmanship of Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, Union Minister of Labour &; Employment.
The tripartite Standing Labour Committee reviews the action taken on the conclusions of previous sessions of ILC and decides the items to be included in the agenda for the next session of ILC.
After the inaugural Session and general discussion on 23rd November, 2010, the Conference will split into the following three committees to have detailed deliberation on each of the three items of the agenda of the Conference:
• Conference Committee on “Global Financial downturn - its impact - job losses - comprehensive package for protection of labour force, etc.”
• Conference Committee on “Problems of contract labour - social security, wages, etc. and amendments in the contract labour legislations”.
• Conference Committee on “Employment generation and skill development”.
Each Conference Committee will meet separately to discuss the subject matter assigned to it in detail and present the conclusions arrived at therein for adoption in the Concluding Session of the Conference.
Source;PIB
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