Will try to reach a bilateral understanding with more countries for welfare of workers. The Union government will use the occasion of the upcoming General Assembly of International Labour Conference (ILO) to reach a bilateral understanding with more countries for welfare of workers
NEW DELHI: The Union government will use the occasion of the upcoming General Assembly of International Labour Conference (ILO) to reach a bilateral understanding with more countries for welfare of workers under the framework of Social Security Agreements, a report in The Deccan Chronicle, says.
The ILO event will be attended by Labour Ministers of the member countries, including Bhupender Yadav from India.
“Efforts are on to brring in more nations for agreement with India to bring the Indian workers working abroad under the social security net,” Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Wednesday, June 8.
The operational mechanism under the framework is that the concerned foreign countries provide details of Indian expatriate workers’ Provident Funds accounts.
This will help the Indian government to cover the expatriate workers under social security net under its labour law.
So far, India has an agreement with 19 countries, including Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland and France. Agreement has also been signed with Brazil, but it is yet to come into effect.
Yadav said the government was focused on improving the conditions of the workers through its welfare measures.
On future initiatives of the ministry, he said plans were afoot to strengthen the network of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) hospitals in the country.
These hospitals will be linked with the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, also known as Ayushman Bharat.
Besides, the Labour Ministry’s ‘e-Shram’ portal, on which unorganised workers register themselves, will be linked with other portals and facilities in the coming days.
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