My differentiated "macro-views" on the BJP Government's recent attempts at labour law reform (Also on my Twitter/X and Facebook handles today)

 My concerns, broadly speaking, on the BJP government's new set of Labour Laws:

1. I think the onus should be on the government's Essential Services-ensuring role, to make budgetary allocations for certain labour concerns, and to not impose that role and power on the private sector's other processes by making it one of it's incidental by-products as has been the case for some time. My previous reluctance to welcome Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), is a matter of written record. Therefore, while I would not jump into the fray to agitate for such workers' rights to be obtained from their employers, I would definitely hold the government to account if it fails to address the above macro view in a dramatic way in its budgetary planning. My pro bono advice to the BJP-led Union Government would then be to ask them to specify if this is their thinking on the issue. If not, we definitely have a problem on our hands in terms of there being a lack of ideological clarity on the part of all planners. 2. In my humble opinion, it is my view that Collective Bargaining by Labour Unions leaves much to be desired as of today. I think the present government ought to be held to account in terms of what it is doing for individual unorganized workers. 3. My answer to some of the above concerns has been, for some time, the setting up of a central-level legislation, for employment guarantee across the country, not only in rural areas, and for it to include, in it's scheduled list of activities, a number of skilled and unskilled Services, including in the peripheral healthcare sector. 4. I speak for all, but I believe Affirmative Action in the area of unorganized labour in fields such as Domestic Labour needs to be in favour of individual girls and women in the Employers' families, and that one should refrain from populistic and feudal politics by piously speaking for Employees. This would also apply to agricultural labour. I speak as a Social Reformer.