CHENNAI: The CPM, CPI, VCK and CPI(ML) Liberation on Sunday condemned the Union government’s move to implement the four labour codes from November 21, calling it a major assault on workers’ rights and a setback to India’s labour movement. In a joint statement, CPM state secretary P Shanmugam, CPI state secretary M Veerapandian, VCK president Thol Thirumavalavan and CPI(ML) Liberation state secretary Pazha Asaithambi urged workers and the public to join statewide protests on December 8 demanding that the codes be withdrawn.

The parties said the Union government had replaced 29 labour laws with the new codes, which they described as a corporate-driven initiative aligned with the Hindutva agenda. Such reforms, they argued, would erode hard-won rights secured through more than a century of l

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