Panel to look into issues raised by ILO report

NEW DELHI: Concerned over International Labour Organisation’s remarks over discrimination at work places, especially against women, Centre on Monday set up a five-member committee to look into the matter and suggest remedial measures.
"We have appointed a committee, headed by a joint secretary rank officer, to go into the findings of International Labour Organisation (ILO) on discrimination at work places and give the report by May 31," Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma said.
He was releasing the ILO report ''Time for equality at work'' which said "in India, wage classification of skilled and unskilled workers has sometimes placed women in the unskilled, lower paying wage-category and men in the skilled and higher paying category, irrespective of the content or skill level of the job."
Verma said the committee would include members from the legal fraternity and Indian Labour Institute, apart from senior officials in the Ministry.
Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson Najma Heptulla, who presided over the function, said India wanted a specific law to curb discrimination against women at work place, since at present there was only a Supreme Court verdict in this regard.
The global report is a follow-up to the ILO declaration on fundamental principles and Rights at Work, 2003.