At a time when multi-national and domesticcompanies employ temporary workers on a large scale resulting in industrialunrest, there is a need to reverse the trend, experts agreed at a conferenceheld here Thursday.
"The current situation gives signals that there is aneed to change the present trend of running factories with temporary workers.Changes and corrections have to be done well in time," said Mohan Pyare,secretary, labour and employment department, Tamil Nadu.
He was speaking at the Tamil Nadu HR Summit 2012 organisedby the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
He said the course correction had to be done at theearliest.
K. Srinivasan, managing director at Carborundum UniversalLtd (CUMI) which is a part of the Murugappa Group, said the group wasrestructuring its work force and over the next three years there may not be anytemporary workers in the group factories.
Speaking to reporters later, Srinivasan said while temporaryworkers cannot be eliminated totally, their compensation would be increased tobe nearly at par with that of permanent workforce.
According to R. Dinesh, chairman of CII-Tamil Nadu and jointmanaging director, T.V. Sundaram Iyengar & Sons Ltd, the industry was keenthat Tamil Nadu should have an outsourcing policy to address the skilled labourneeds.