Nawanshahr- Indian Federation of Trade Unions (Iftu) Punjab has decided to submit a memorandum to MLAs on June 13 to withdraw the amendment made by Bhagwant Mann government in Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishments Act as against the interests of workers.
Giving information, Iftu State Press Secretary Jasbir Deep said that this decision was taken in an online meeting of Iftu State Committee in which Iftu State President Kulwinder Singh Waraich, State Secretary Raj Singh Malout, Assistant Secretary Avtar Singh Tari, Juginderpal Gurdaspur and other State Committee members participated.
The Mann government has exempted shops and commercial establishments with 20 workers from registration and has also taken away the right of the workers working in them to form their own registered union. In these establishments, no overtime was given to the workers before and will not be given in future. 
In this way, the Mann government is secretly implementing the four anti-worker labor codes of the Modi government at the center. In shops and commercial establishments, workers were already required to work for 10 hours instead of 8 hours, but the Mann government has exposed its anti-labor face by increasing their daily work to 12 hours.