EMPLOYEE RIGHTS FRONT
Definition of employee:
Any person who
a. has no means of earning livelihood other than selling his mental or physical labour and
b. who does not have the authority to hire and fire other employees
is an employee – one who is being exploited. To end the divide among employees on the basis of mental and physical labour abilities in order to make them conscious of the fac
t that they are all being exploited without discrimination
2. To end the divide between industrial and service sector employees and to wage a joint struggle for their rights
3. To wage a struggle against the system of part-time, contractual and third-party employment – such systems are in place to legitimize the exploitation of the labourer
4. To obtain the right, without any discrimination, of politics and unionization for all employees in all the factories, institutions, agencies and firms
5. Employees selling their mental labour, just like the ones selling their physical labour, are deprived of their right to politics and unionization. We aim to obtain these rights for all such engineers, professionals and executive cadre employees – who do not hold the power to hire and fire other employees – on the same footing as physical labourers
6. Today, wage disparities are such that while the MDs and CEOs earn in millions, many employees are deprived of even the basic right of minimum wage of Rs15,000. We aim at struggling for legislation that outlaws disparities of over 100% between wages of senior and lower cadres.
7. Companies have formulated their own tests and interview formats for recruitment purposes. These procedures are in place to legitimize the hiring of people on bases of linguistic and ethnic backgrounds, nepotism and influential people’s references while ignoring merit. We aim at struggling for legislation that allows provisions for all graduating students to be tested and hired under the National Testing Service every year.
8. To struggle for amendment in minimum wage law so that wage disparities on the bases of position, grade and duration of employment are outlawed in accordance with the point discussed in Number 6.
9. To struggle for legislation that provides for distribution as bonus among all employees of any surplus/profit left after disbursement of salaries.
10. The Front will struggle on both legal and political forums for all the issues that a member may face with regards to their employment. It is hence binding upon every member to participate in the struggle for the other members’ struggle for rights. Workers of the world, unite!
