By Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji
 
Panaji, Jun 14: All India Trade Union Congress has threatened to call for statewide agitation, if Goa government continues delaying to notify the upward revision in the minimum wages applicable for all scheduled employment in the state.
 
“The government ought to remember that the concept of minimum wages became applicable through long struggles and countless sacrifices by the working class against the exploitation,” AITUC General Secretary Christopher Fonseca told PTI.
 
Fonseca said that the minimum wages act was enacted to fix the rates of minimum wages for those schedules of employment where the wages are pathetic and at starvation level.
 
The AITUC has threatened that, if minimum wages are not notified by this month end, they would be forced to strike.
 
“The minimum wages act purports to prevent exploitation of labour and for that purpose authorizes the appropriate government to take steps to revise and prescribe the minimum rate of wages for different schedules of employment,” he said.
 
Fonseca said that in an under developed country, which faces the problem of unemployment on a very large scale, it not unlikely that labour may offer to work even on starvation wages.