Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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APPENDIX I. 521 PAGES. 289. The Central Government should determine finally the character of the control necessary in any area . 200. Officials as well as planters should take steps to acquaint the workers with the change in the law in regard to penal contracts “5 291. Steps should be taken to secure public contact with workers’ dwellings on all plantations .e . . 292. (az) The tea industry should give publicity to the advantages which the plantations have to offer tothe inhabitants of other provinces (6) The emigrant should be encouraged to maintain touch with his own people by means of correspondence - 293. Repatriation : (a) Every future assisted emigrant to an Assam tea garden, whe- ther from an area of free or controlled recruiting should have the right after the first three years to be repatriated at his employer’s expense ~~ .. () The Protector of Immigrants and the planters in consultation should consider the machinery necessary to make the right of repatriation effective . os {¢) In the case of the worker who transfers his services to another garden before the three years have expired, the cost of re- patriation should fall on the employer by whom he was last engaged. A worker transferring his services to an em- ployer outside the tea industry should thereby be consider- ed to have surrendered the right to repatriation . (d) The Protector should be empowered to repatriate a garden worker, at the expense of his employer, within one year of his arrival in Assam if this is necessary on the ground of health, the unsuitability of the work to his capacity, un- just treatment by the employer or for other sufficient reason, and at any time before the expiry of three years if he is satisfied that the immigrant is unable with due diligence Lo secure a normal wage and desires to be repatriated ie (e) A worker dismissed before the expiry of the three years should be entitled to repatriation at the expense of the employer ismissing him, unless it is established that the dismissal was due to wilful misconduct - {f) In case of physical assault by an employer or his agent, in addition to any other penalty which may be provided by law, the magistrate should be empowered to order the re- vatriation of the worker at the expense of the emplover .. CHAPTER XXI,—WAGES ON PLANTATIONS. 204, Wage-fixing machinery in the Assam plantations— (a) The establishment of statutory wage-fixing machinery in the Assam plantations, if practicable, is desirable, and there are reasons for believing that, if proper methods are adopted, a practicable scheme can be devised .. - (b) Before legislation is undertaken, an enquiry should be instituted as to the most suitable form of machinery, the actual rates paid and the variations in these rates between district and district and between garden and garden. The tea industry should he invited to co-operate in this enquiry . . x 376 977-8 378 378 270 270 280 280) IRN.1 MRT 1 204 304

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