‘Creating an ambience
where both workers and managements understand their rights and duties is no
tall order’.
The Centre is engaged
in serious discussions with trade unions over the new labour code, with a view
to improving the ease of doing business. But missing from the debate is the
issue of the obligations of workers. During the 1960s and 1970s, workers’
education, aided by the government, provided them with the opportunity to know
their rights. But the whole campaign was on rights and not obligations. Once
rights are conferred on any group, and they become binding, it becomes
difficult to reduce or deprive such rights.
