Sunday, December 25, 2011: Labour Minister Shibu Baby John today opined that Kochi would be freed of ‘Nokku Kooli’, the unhealthy practice of demanding money for allowing others to do loading and unloading work.Speaking to the reporters here on Sunday, the Minister said that the state government has issued a directive regulating the amount for loading and unloading work. Such practices had brought a bad name to workers in Kerala though there was little industrial unrest in the State now, he added.
(Nokku kooli is an unofficial labour norm under which wages are paid to trade union activists for allowing investors/ builders to download material using either machines or their own labour. This amount is charged by labour unions as they feel that they have lost their work and the income.)
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