Construction workers in Erode seek pension and housing facility
The Hindu
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Urging the State government to provide pension to construction workers who had completed 60 years of age and house for homeless workers, members of Tamil Nadu AITUC Construction Workers’ Association staged a demonstration at Surampatti Four Road on Wednesday
Led by the association’s state secretary S. Chinnasamy, members said the government order number 36 dated February 28, 2011, paved the way for pension to construction workers. But, so far, it has not been implemented.
A meeting of welfare boards held on December 14, 2021, urged the government to provide autonomous status to the boards so that its functioning was not affected. The protesting members wanted a government order issued in this regard.
Members also wanted the discrepancies in online registration and renewals of boards resolved and the process of obtaining recommendation letters from the Village Administrative Officer for board registration withdrawn. Workers who do not have their own house should be given housing, and they should be given 25% allotment in tenements constructed under the Tamil Nadu Urban Livelihood Mission.
Their other demands were increasing the compensation for natural death of workers to ₹10 lakh, monthly pension at ₹6,000, providing pension for women workers after they attained 50 years of age and providing six months maternity leave for women workers and implementing PF and ESI for construction workers.
Later, they took out a march and submitted a petition to the officials at the Collectorate.