File photo of Haryana Chief Deputy Minister Dushyant Chautala.
Applies to private companies, partnerships, trusts and associated companies, among others, located in the state. The state governor must pass the bill before it becomes law.
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The Haryana Assembly on Thursday approved a bill to give a 75 percent private sector reserve to state job seekers, fulfilling an electoral promise made by the ruling Jannayak Janta party, a partner in the alliance. The Haryana State Local Candidate Employment Bill 2020 sets the quota for the local population in private sector jobs offering a salary of less than Rs 50,000 per month.
Applies to private companies, partnerships, trusts and associated companies, among others, located in the state. The state governor must pass the bill before it becomes law.
The bill provides for the training of eligible local candidates when qualified individuals are not available. The bill was introduced by Haryana’s Chief Deputy Minister Dushyant Chautala at the assembly here on Thursday, when the second part of its monsoon session began.
Giving a 75 percent reserve on private sector jobs was a key promise in polls from Chautala’s Jannayak Janta Party, which is the BJP’s coalition partner in the state. After the House passed the bill, Chautala said the promise made to billions of young people has been kept.
Earlier this year, the BJP-JJP government failed to obtain the consent of Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya to a work quota ordinance. Narain had sent the ordinance to the president for his consideration.
The state government had said at the time that it would introduce a labor quota bill during the Vidhan Sabha monsoon session. But amid the fears of coronavirus
Infection, the House sat just one day in August, only to resume now. When asked about the governor’s move, Chautala said that since some provisions of the ordinance gave it “primary effect over other laws,” Narain may have decided to refer the matter to the president.
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