NFIR Demand against handing over of work of loading coal into engine tenders to contractors and abolition of the posts of Coalmen in the Mechanical Department on the Railways-Directive issued to GM Western Railway and copy endorsed to GMs other Railways. to ensure that long periods of departmental handling were not allowed to intervene between the termination of one contract and the award of the next for the same item of work such as coal handling from wagons etc. Railways were further advised that a Bill sponsored by government providing for prohibition of contract working in respect of certain items of the employer's activities had been introduced in Parliament and was presently before a Select Committee and that until the area of such prohibition was defined, it would be implicit to change over the to contract working, any item which had been traditionally handled departmentally. Similarly it would be equally unwise to allow any Item

Keywords	P.S.Mahadevan National Federation of India
Ministry/ Department/ Residency	Ministry of Railway
Branch	Establishment Labour Welfare Act
From Year / Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	1968
To Year / Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	1968
Identifier	PR_211200034212
File No./Reference No./Sheet No./Folio No.	E/LWA/68AT/CNR/1-1/1-6
Location	Repository-4
File Size	13.9 MB
Pages	19
Collection	Digitized Public Records Ministry of Railway
Language	English